This is an analysis of the poem The Scorcher And The Howling Swell that begins with:
The Scorcher and the Howling Swell were riding through the land;
They wept like anything to see the hills on every hand; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX bXb XcX ccX aaX ddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101010101 111101010111001 101010101011101010 1010011101100101 111000010110111010 1011010101110101 1010111010010010 101010101110101 110101011101010 01011101100101 101010001011011111 110111011101110 1011111010010101 100011101011101 1111011111011100 110010001011111 11001101011101 11011101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, as, tea, globe, brand, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, and are repeated.
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