This is an analysis of the poem Population Drifts that begins with:
New-mown hay smell and wind of the plain made her
a woman whose ribs had the power of the hills in...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXddddaXXdbbXcdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100110 0101110100010 0101011111 11011001 110110101001 111010100011 11011101101 11000101 1110101111101 11101111110 1001111001100 1111010011010 10010101000110 10101000111 0110101011 1111000111110 101001101001 11110101011 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 963
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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