This is an analysis of the poem How In All Wonder... that begins with:
How in all wonder Columbus got over,
That is a marvel to me, I protest, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccddeE XfafgggffXe XfXXhhhggeEeE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110010110 1001001101 10110111110 1001001101 101101 101101 101101 111101 110101 0011101010 0011011101 10110110110 1001101100101 10011111010 1011001001 010110 010010 010010 101111 001011 111111100 1011010101 101111111100 1101111011 10010110110 1001101001 100101 1010101 001101 101101 1011101 1110110101 0011011101 1111111101 0011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 411
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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