This is an analysis of the poem The Creek Of The Four Graves that begins with:

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I verse a Settler's tale of olden times ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdefghhXi dfXjgbfebifXhfgkl mgmXjabbghjg jbmmgffjjXj fiffXjdjjffjX lahXbmglbmfjnmjbj dhfodpXlhfX dbchjXbjhqf njjcbbcbdbcqdghjgbhbkhehcijjpagjgh X dddfdjembfgXgdb bgigdffgbfa Xjljhhhfffeegb hlfrrjmcmcaXmjj eifgXcflhXhffbfjc dlmlnabihddbgffjhXfbjhXjhlr f
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,12,11,13,17,11,11,34,1,15,11,14,15,17,27,15,10,21,1,31,30,14,12,26,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101010101 1111111100 1111101001 0011011001 0001001101 1111010101 1101111101 1101010111 001101101 1101110101 1101010001 1111111101 1101011101 11000010101 00110111110 1011101101 0001010101 0101010011 1001000101 11001010101 11110001101 0100111101 01011100100 01010010011 0101111001 0101010101 0111110001 0101001101 0111010101 0111011100 1101111101 110010001110 1101011101 11001011101 0101000101 1100001001 11001101001 10001110100 1100011101 0111010100 1101110101 0111011111 1101100001 1101010101 0111001101 0101011101 0001010001 11100010111 1011000101 0101011010 0100010101 1101010111 11001011111 01110101101 0101011111 01000101000 1101000111 1011111101 01110100101 1011011101 0100110101 1101010001 01010010101 1011010100 11110101111 111111000101 1111010101 0001010111 1101100001 11011100111 0100111101 0111000101 1111001101 10011101001 01110001111 1001010111 01011100101 11000010101 1101001111 0111010001 0011001101 0101001101 0100010101 1101010101 0111011000 111001111 01010100010 10011001100 1001010101 100010011111 1111010001 0101000101 11011011101 01011101101 110100001001 0101101101 11110001001 1011010111 11011011001 1001010101 01010100110 0101010101 01001110001 0100101111 1001110101 0101011101 1001001111 0111011111 1001100101 1101100101 0111011101 1111010111 0011010001 0101110101 11010110001 1101110101 1001010011 1001001100 1101010101 1101111111 11010100101 1111100101 110010100101 11110000111 0011011101 1111001001 11001010101 1111010101 1011010001 11010101111 1011101111 0111010110 1101010101 1101011101 1011010001 1011111101 11001110011 1 11010101011 1111001101 1001010111 1001010111 0101010001 1010010101 0101001111 10011110001 0001100101 110011111001 1100010111 1001010101 1001010101 0100011110 1100010111 11011101101 10110100101 0101010101 1011000101 1111010101 0001110101 1111010101 1011010111 01010100111 11010101001 1001011110 1100011100 1101010001 11110011101 1101010001 10000011111 1101000101 0111010101 11011111011 0101110011 1101010111 0101001101 01110001001 1111101001 0101000101 11001011101 0101100101 00110100001 1001010111 11001011101 1001110001 1101110111 0110111101 11000010111 10011010101 1100010111 10000111100 1101010001 1011000101 1011010001 1101101111 11011111101 0001111101 010011101 1100111110 01001101111 11001101001 1101001101 0101010011 1101010101 1101000111 1101100101 11010101111 0101000101 11010111100 1101010101 01101110001 0100110101 1111011111 1001010111 1001010101 11011100101 0111111111 00110011001 1101110111 1001100101 0111010101 1111011111 11010010101 1101111001 0101011111 1111011111 0100110101 11111100101 01111100011 11110101001 01100110100 1111110101 01000101001 0101011101 1101010101 01110101101 1011010101 0101011001 1101110101 1001010111 1110111111 1101110100 11111000011 0100010101 0101111101 0110010111 0100010011 10101000101 11000010111 110010101110 0101010111 1101011111 0111000100 1101110111 1110010001 1111110111 1011100101 01000101001 1101110101 1001110111 0101110101 1001011001 0101011111 1100110100 1001110100 0101001011 1110000101 01011100001 1000010111 1111011001 1101011101 01111111001 10011111001 1111111111 0101110101 1101010111 11111111110 1111010111 01001010101 110010100101 0111011111 1111110111 1011001101 0101101101 1 1101111111 0101001111 0111111111 1111100101 110011011000 1011110111 1001000101 01010011111 0111000111 0100011101 0101011111 01111000101 1001110101 0101110101 0101110111 0101011101 100011100001 1101011111 101110011 1100010111 0101010101 1101001101 1001010011 0101010111 1111101001 0111110101 11001010001 1011110111 01001110011 1101100101 0101110111 1001000101 1101110111 1001011101 0101011110 0101110111 01010010111 0110011111 0001111101 0111010101 111100101 11010011001 1101100101 1100010101 11001010001 1111010100 100110011111 1101101101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010011 0111110101 0111110111 01010011001 1111010100 1011001101 1001011101 10011001110 1111110111 111100101010 1101110001 11001010101 0100110101 11000100011 1100111111 1101011101 0101011001 1111001101 1100100111 1111110101 0101110001 11010010001 0111010001 01011011010 11001010101 1111010001 11001010101 0101110001 11000111010 0101010101 11001110101 0011010110 1101010101 0101000101 1111010110 10001010101 0011011011 10110001111 01001000101 01110010101 1101000100 00010010101 1101010011 1101010111 010010100111 0100011100 1001011111 01010010001 1101110001 1011000101 0101100101 1110110101 0101110001 01110010101 1101000101 1101011001 1101010111 01001011101 1011011111 1011110101 10011101000 01011100001 0111011101 010010010010 0101001101 1101111111 10010011101 1001110101 101101111 11000001111 1011010111 0101010101 11011111001 0100111101 1001100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 706
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 413
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, of, by, when, his, fast, nearer, still, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, with, the, in are repeated.

    The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases i, up, flies connect the lines.

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