This is an analysis of the poem The Plains Of Abraham that begins with:
I stood upon the Plain,
That had trembled when the slain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb dddeXd ffXggh eeic Xi eXjddj kkalla ddbddb ddabbaXgghcch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,2,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1110101 111010101010101 1011111 1010111 101011101010111 110111 010101 111000100110011 11101010 10101010 101010100010101 110111 010001 001000101010110 010101 010001 0010100101010001 1101010 110101 11010101110001 1011101 1010010 10101010101100101 110111 1001010 011101101011101 1100101 110101 101110101010101 111111 111101 001011101010101 110101 110011 001011101010101 111111 110101 010011101110011 1011111 1010101 1101010110101 011101 110111 01010101110101 011101 011101 11001111010100101 111001 010101 10010101010101 1010101 1010101 0110001001100001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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