This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Pilgrims that begins with:
O Dwellers at the back of the North Wind,
What have we done to you? How have we sinned...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAX aaX bbb ccC ccc ddd bbb eee fff eeX gggbbb aaa eee aAa bbb bbb hhh Xii Xaa jjjXccC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,6,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010011 1111011111 10001010101 0101110101 1101000101 10001010101 1111110101 1001110101 1011011101 1111111111 1111110101 1011011101 0111011101 0011010111 10011110011 1101011111 1111010101 0101101101 1001010001 1001011101 1101011101 1111111101 0110110101 1101000101 11110100101 110010011101 1111010111 11111010101 11110100111 1101010100 1111010101 0111110001 1001010101 10010010101 1101011110 1101010111 1101011111 110101011 1001111111 1111010101 1011011111 1101110101 1101010011 1111011111 1111010101 1001010001 11110100101 1100101101 10111111101 01001111111 11010011110 1111010111 0100111101 0101010101 11010100100 1010010111101 1011111101 10001010101 1101110001 1111111111 1001010001 1011110101 1101111001 1101011111 1111010101 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, we, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, land, and, nor are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines blow is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ind at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Song Of The Pilgrims;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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