This is an analysis of the poem Localities that begins with:
Wagon wheel gap is a place I never saw
And Red Horse Gulch and the chutes of Cripple Creek. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX XbXcdca eXf efbb deegecXbeXXcXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,3,4,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011101 11111010101 11010100010 1001110011 01111011110 0111110110 01101101 00110010010 1110111101 11111110 10101101010 10010110010 111110 011100011110 10001110110 101011001111 101000010111 1111111001 10110111 001011010 11101111001011 1010110110 11101001010 100101 1101101101 11111110101 10101110101 1110011110010 1111111101 110111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; red, of, in, one, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, one, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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