This is an analysis of the poem Prairie Wind that begins with:
I looked out as the dusk fell on the prairie waste and wide,
There was no dog that barked there, nor any tree that sighed:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa ccaa ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111010111 1111111110111 10111101111001 110111010011 11010010101001 0101110110111 0010100101010101 11001100010101 11010011110101 1110010100101 10110110011111 1101110110101 11010100011100 011000101010101 10010101110101 10111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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