This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of La Brea that begins with:
Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake,
In the stately Morichal,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc dXde fege fded fhih jklk flml abab Xljl lili iili bcfc jheX bege Xili bidi cXdh Xbdb ekkX blXX lbmb ckfk liXi bbXb lXjf aklk lddd bXie nkXk clfl XbXb eeee XhiX Xnln aldl XlXl Xkek gkdX fajaXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 0010100 111010100 1010101 10101010 00100100 100101110 1010101 11111110 0010010 10101010 1010111 11101010 1110111 101010011 111011001 101001010 1010101 101001001 10010101 10101110 1010101 10101011 1111111 100101010 1010101 11101010 1110111 11110010 1010101 101010101 1111101 10100100 1111001 10111110 1110111 10111110 0011101 10101110 1010111 10101110 1010101 11111111 1111101 11111110 10101101 10101010 1011101 10101010 1011111 101110111 1110100 10111001 1011111 00101011 10101011 10111010 1010101 10101110 101001 10101010 10010101 11101010 11101101 11101010 1011101 111010010 1010001 11111000 1111001 10101110 1101101 11111011 1111111 101011011 11100101 1010010100 1010111 10100010 11111110 10101110 1010101 10111111 1111101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1011111 10101011 0011011 11000010 1011101 10001010 1010101 10111000 1011101 10101010 11101001 101001010 1010100 11111011 1010111 10101011 1111001 11111110 1110111 101001010 1010111 11101110 1110100 11001010 1111101 11111111 10101001 1100100 1110101 11111110 1110101 111110 1110101 10100110 10101101 11111100 111101 11101010 1100101 101101110 1110101 101010100 1111111 101010010 10100100 100101110 1011101 10101111 1010101 11101011 1011101 1010110 1011111 10101100 1110111 10101010 101011 11111111 1011111 11100110 0111101 10101010 1011101 11101010 10101010 10111010 1110101 111111010 1111111 110101010 10011111 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 160
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, british, gnawed, as, of, man, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words rusty, british, never, plucked, saw, fearful, passed are repeated.
The author used the same words never, saw at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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