This is an analysis of Upon The Horse And His Rider by John Bunyan.

There's one rides very sagely on the road,
Showing that he affects the gravest mode.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccdd e eeddffaaddggccDdfXaaddXXggDd
  • Stanza lengths: 10,1,28,
  • Metre: 11110100101 1011010101 0101100111 0111001101 1111101111 1111011111 1101101111 0101101101 110011001010 11010111010 0100 1111110001 0100010011 11110100010 110011111010 1111010011 111100101 100101110 1101111001 10011001010 11010111010 1110101101 10010111101 0101010111 1101110101 10111001010 11010111010 1011100101 1011010100 0101111101 1111110001 11111101010 01111111110 1111011100 1111010101 1111010101 1101000111 10111001010 11010111010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 39

Repeated words/phrases

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