This is an analysis of the poem Manitoba Childe Roland that begins with:
LAST night a January wind was ripping at the shingles
over our house and whistling a wolf song under the ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXdaeefdgfedgXhgfXXcfifXbajcXjeii XahbhXkekaace
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011101010 1011110011100 1 1100101011001111 01010110001 101 1011010101101 100001111101 01010011010101 101011111110 11011011111 1111111101011 110101110011 111111001101 1011111 1011001001111 1001111001010 110101111110 1 1101001010100011 10011010101000101 0011100100001100 010 11001001001011 0101011010001101 0100010100 101000101110100 011010111110 1111110101010 1101010101 1001010110010010 01010101010011 1100111011 10110110110 10001001110101 1101101110 111101011001 1110010010111 1111000111010 1110101101100 10 11111001101010 1010100110101 111010110111 01111010 110101011101010 110011100101 1010101101100 001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1207
- Average number of words per stanza: 215
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on, he, of, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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