This is an analysis of the poem The Last Trek that begins with:
Across the veld the homeless wind goes wailing,
O'er leagues of heath and grassland wild and brown,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbabab cdcdebeb afafebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101110 10101111111 101110101010 10111 101011100010 0100011101 111100101110 10111 111110101010 0111011101 1110101010 10111 101111101110 1111011101 1010111010100 10111 101000101110 1111101111 101010101110 10101 001111111010 1001011101 11110101110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, he, many are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word done at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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