This is an analysis of the poem Good Cheer that begins with:
So let these songs their story tell
To all who in the Northland dwell,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb dddeed ccdaad ffgddg bbdhhd DXciic bbcjjc DXgkkg llcjjc bbcjjc llcmXjmc lnl oXlo ppbddb Xlccnddn ffoXdo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,3,4,6,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 01100111 1101010 11010001 00110101 1101010 11111111 100110111 1101110 11110111 11011101 1011110 111111011 11110101 0111110 00111101 11111111 1111010 11111101 10010101 0111010 11001101 10110101 0111010 11100101 01010101 0101110 01010001 11010101 1101110 01011111 010101100 1111110 010100111 01010101 1101110 11110101 0101111 110010010 01010111 11111001 0111110 01011111 010101100 1101110 11010111 01010111 0101110 01111011 11010111 1101010 01011001 11011101 0101110 11111111 01111101 1101010 00111111 010010111 1111010 11111101 11110111 0111010 10011101 01110 1 11 0101010 11110110 0101010 1 1101010 01111100 01011101 1101110 11011111 01010111 11110010 10011101 11010101 1111001 0 1 1010101 10110101 1111010 11010101 11110101 1101010 11110111 11100101 0101110 11110100 11011101 0100110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, some, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, some, the are repeated.
The author used the same words i, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Good Cheer;
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