This is an analysis of the poem Prairie Sunset that begins with:
Where the Great Chief's sullen crest
Looks over the land,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abXb cXcX XXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 11001 0101001 1011 1011001 1101 1010010 11001 101001001 00101 1011101 10101 10101101 1111 1011001 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Prairie Sunset;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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