This is an analysis of the poem On Boot Hill that begins with:
Up from the prairie and through the pines,
Over your struggling headboard lines...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccbddeaaaeccfcccfggchhhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101101 101100111 100111 11101101 110101101 11101111 100101 100100111 10101111 101101 111111111 11110101 110100111 10111 11100101 111100111 110111 100101111 110100111 101100111 110101 111110101 11100111 100101 100100101 101101101 111100101 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 942
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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