This is an analysis of the poem Buffalo Country that begins with:
Out where the grey streams glide,
Sullen and deep and slow, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdefefbdf egeghhg eieibXi bjbjkkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 101111 1010101 00100101 1110110101 1010110111 100101 100101 1010101 1010101 00111001 00110100101 100100101 100111 0010111 0010111 1010101 1010101 101100101 101010111 10100101 10100101 1011101 100101 00100101 100101101 1010110100 110100 110111 00110101 1011111 0110111 1011100101 11101100111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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 is repeated.
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- summary of Buffalo Country;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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