This is an analysis of the poem Hiawatha's Departure that begins with:
By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdeefgXhfhbffgaiajkaiXXfgjdghhhlhCecacaaXXXchafCchafmXcgehjdbXhhfEbfjhhEnnXnXobEmhcXiahfcXamAjmfXjbffXXhpcqfeXXbhXXehqEbmAaXgmfoXhndXbbhfcqbehXdbfhbXeagbagejjabpeXgiXkjbjXhXXOgDXlbbbfaXlhfhmOhgnlbnbXjcacfaXdceoaaajghcfcdahoeXXoeXfhXXhXjdgcDXgXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 247,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 10101110 10110010 00101010 10101110 10111010 10111110 10111011 1001010010 10101010 10101010 10100011 10111010 10101011 00101010 100100011 10100110 10100010 100111011 10001010 00101010 111001010 10101010 10101011 00101110 00101000 10110010 11000101 11101010 010101010 10111010 10101010 10111010 100101010 10111111 10101110 100101010 10001010 10001010 11100010 11101110 10101010 10100010 10100010 10100111 10111010 00101010 00101110 01101110 10100110 100101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10100011 10101010 00101010 00101010 10111010 10101011 00110010 10101010 00101010 10101010 10101000 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111011 00101010 10101010 10101010 10111001 1000001110 11111011 11101011 11111011 11101110 10111111 100101110 10101110 10111110 11111011 10111110 11101111 11101010 10111111 1000111011 10111010 100110111 01100011 11101010 11111011 10111110 100001010 10111010 100011010 10011110 10111010 101110100 101001010 10100010 10011010 10011010 10101100 10101010 10101010 10101011 11101110 10110010 101000010 10100010 00100100 101001010 10101010 10010111010 111110110 00101011 01111010 10001010 10001110 10111011 00101010 100001010 10111010 10010111010 111110110 10111010 10100010 10010010 10001010 1011010 10101110 11111111 11101110 10101100 11111011 11101111 10100010 10100010 10111010 11100110 11111010 10111111 00111110 111110110 11111010 11100010 00111010 10100010 101001110 00101010 10001110 10101010 00101010 10101010 00101010 10101010 00111110 101101110 10101010 10001010 100001010 1010010011 10101110 10111010 11100010 10101011 10011011 11101010 10101010 100001010 00111010 11101100 10101001 011011100 101101100 10111010 00100011 00100011 00111100 11111011 01111110 11101110 11101010 10101010 10101110 00101000 10001011 111010100 11101011 10101001 11101110 10111010 10111010 01110110 11101011 11111011 10011010 10001111 101001110 001011100 10111010 11101110 101110010 10101110 00100010 10100010 1000100100 10101010 10101010 101110010 10111010 10101010 11111010 11111010 10101010 100010011 10001010 10001010 10100010 11101010 10101110 10011010 10100010 10111010 10001010 11110001000 1100011000 10101110 11111010 1100011000 10101010 101001010 1100011000 10100111 00101011 1100011000 10101010 10100010 00100011 00101010 00100011 00111100 0010001 00100100 00100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 8463
- Average number of words per stanza: 1474
- Amount of lines: 247
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, from, of, nearer, his, you, so, peace, all, told, how, him, we, never, to, sailed, into, hiawatha are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, all, passed, as, with, something, or, from, never, peace, seated, waiting, told, how, and, we, to, see, bade, listen, sailed, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, him, them, hiawatha are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases you, hiawatha connect the lines.
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