This is an analysis of the poem Cobbler Keezar's Vision that begins with:

The beaver cut his timber
With patient teeth that day,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd efef agag Xhgh giXi Fbcb cece Fjcj gkck Xele XegX acec Xehe aglg eXic mgcg cikX ebXX accc ckhk nbcb Xfif XbXb Xcgc XebX miei aeie iimi cbab Xbcd Xccc aici cici elcl XoXo mhXh impm cbgb gmhm abXb iipX Xbfb elcl ahch ancn Xipi cfafXcbeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010 010111 01011101 010011 11011011 010101 001011101 010111 11001010 1111011 001110010 0010101 1101110 110101 1110100100 0010111 0111110 110101 0111010 110101 1011110 011101 11011010 100111 1101110 100101 1001110 010101 1011110 1111111 10010010 110101 10111010 0011111 11111100 1010101 1101110 110111 11011101 0100011 11101110 1100101 10101110 101011011 11101010 1100111 11000100101 1100101 10010110 100101 11101010 1110101 11101110 110111 10111111 10100111 10111110 1110101 11101010 0011101 1101010 0011111 10101110 1010111 1101010 0101111 1110110101 10111010 01001110 1110111 1111110 1011110 101011010 11101001 101110010 1110101 101001110 10100111 101001110 0010001 11101010 1010101 101001010 1010101 101010010 100111 001001011 00100100 00101000 0100111 111001010 1101001 11111010 1101101 111001010 110111 1101110 110111 11001011 111101 10101010 100101 101001010 001101 11010010 1101101 1100110111 111101 101010110 1100101 11001111 1100101 1001011 011111 11101010 1110111 01001010 010101 11101010 0100101 1001010 1011011 1001010 100101 10010010 100101 1001010 1001011 10110010 1011101 101011010 0011101 10101111 110101 1001010 0010101 10011110 1111111 0001110 1111101 11101110 110111 11101010 1100101 1111010 110101 111011010 101111 11101010 1010101 1111011110 1101111 101001010 100101 01011010 010101 1001110010 1011101 111011100 11110101 10111110 1110101 010010010 1100101 1101010 110111 1001011 010101 01101011 0110101 01101011 1000101 1001110 010111 1001011 0011001 1101010 1101001 101110010 1010101 11001010 1010101 1001010 100101 0101110 01011 101101010 111001 1101110 010101 01110001 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 48
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 193
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, in, no, work, of, he, many, i, where, nor, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, no, all, he, and, by, white, nor, have, it are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'oh, 'here's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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