This is an analysis of the poem The Navajo Night Way Ceremony that begins with:
In beauty may I walk
All day long may I walk...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbaaaaaaaaCaCaCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 111111 1001010111 100100101 1001 100101 1011010111 01100111111 010111111 010111 010011111 010011111 010011111 0101011111 011100101010 10111 011100101010 1001111 0010010 0010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; i, may, walk, with, beauty, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words beautifully, with, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines walk, birds, beauty are repeated).
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