This is an analysis of the poem I8 The Kuan's Canticles that begins with:
I hush the wail along my trail
Past hamlet, home and hollow, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XB X cd ce ba B X df dX bg B d gf gX beXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 1101110 111101001 1101110 11010111 1101010 11011101 0101110 11011111 0101110 01011111 1101110 01010101 10110010 11110111 01000010 01011101 1101110 11110101 1101110 01110101 0101010 11110101 0101110 11010101 0111010 11111101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 53
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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