This is an analysis of the poem An Old Colonist's Reverie that begins with:
Dustily over the highway pipes the loud nor'-wester at morn,
Wind and the rising sun, and waving tussock and corn; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ccaacc ddcc eecc bffccdcc ffeXecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,4,8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001001110111011 1101011101011 01011111101101 0100101111100101 110011101101101 11110110111010 011100111011001 1100110100111101 11100110010101 1001111011101001 001001110100101 0011100111011001 100100101001011 11011100110111 110010100101101 0011100110101001 110110111011011 1010010101100101 10111111011001 101111110011101 11100100101110110 11 1110110010001001101 1100111010001001001 1010110110101101011 10110111100110 1001 0110110110001001001 010110110010101001 01001101001101011 1011001111001101 1010110010101011 101 1010010101100111 0110100100010000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, of, in, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, some are repeated.
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