This is an analysis of the poem The Maori Pig Market that begins with:
In distant New Zealand, whose tresses of gold
The billows are ceaselessly combing, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcbccb dbddb dXddb ebeXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011011001 010110010 01001011011 11101011001 010110010 11001001001 010111010 01011101011 11001101001 010010010 11101011001 011010110 11011011001 110101101001 1101010010 01101011001 010110100 01101011001 001001111001 1010010010 01001001001 1110110010 11011001011 111010000100000 1110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gloaming at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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