This is an analysis of the poem Evangeline: Part The Second. I. that begins with:

MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pré,
When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcadaceefXfaXaeaghaifdfafhdhejjhajfjeXjXhebicXdXgXXiaXdffXXXafXdkkkchcdhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 75,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101111010011 11010101010010 100100101110011 1101111011010010 101011011010010 100111011010011 110101110010100 101010110010010 001100101010010 00110010011010010 100100111010010 101101001010010 11111110010110 100110111100110101 1011001110010010 101011010110110 1011010110010011 11111101010010 1011110010010011 11010111100110010 10101011111010 1010011001010011 11010111110011 1011001001010010 100100101010111 100100111010010 00010101011010 0111001111010010 1101010010110010 11010101011010 010101111010111 111101111010010 1101011111010011 0101001110010010 10010101110010 0111011110010111 101101011111010 10100011111111 1101001111110010 10111111010110 101000110111111 10010000110100 11111111111110 11110111110010 11111011110110 100101010011111 1001001111111010 11110010111010 110101100100110110 101111110111111 110110110111000011 10111111110010 1010101110100 100111011110011 1101001001010110 00011010010010010 1010110111010010 110101101010010 10010110010110010 1011011110100010 11010110011010110 10110010110110010 110011010110110 100111010010010 1001111001110101 101111001110010 1010001001110010 110111010010011 1111001110010010 1101001001011010 1001011110010010 111011011110010 110100111011010 1101011110010010 1011011011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4773
  • Average number of words per stanza: 831
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; of, to, and, long are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines godlike is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase exile connects the lines.

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  • summary of Evangeline: Part The Second. I.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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