This is an analysis of the poem The Prospectors that begins with:
WHEN the white sun scorches the fair, green land in the rage of his fierce desires,
Or looms blood red on the Western hills, through the smoke of... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccaabb ddbbdd ddeecc ffaagg hhccbb bbddii ddddffXddiidd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011100111001001010 111110101101011010 10111101010100101 10111001011100101 111011010111100101 1111110101001101001 1111110101101001001 101010010110100101 111010011110100101 111011010110110101 111011110111110101 101111011100100111 111011001110100101 111110010110101101 101010010111100101 111011010110110101 1110110100100100101 111010010111100111 0010100111111001111 101011110100100101 11101001010010111 111010010110101101 01101101011101101 1011001010100100101 11101101110010101 101011011110100101 11101011010010101 111011011100100101 1110100101001001001 101011010111100101 111011111110101101 101010111110100101 10101001011101101 101010111110110101 111011011110101101 001101011110100111 001011101100100101 1011010010110100101 011010010110100101 10101101111011101 000011011110100101 111011011110101101 111010010110110111 000110010111111111 1111111111011101111 11101001010011111 111110110100100101 1110011011100100101 101111010100110101 101011011100100101 11101001011100101 101110010110110101 10111001011101101 101111011110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 468
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 77 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, of, we, on, its, and, have, for, in, to, nor, some, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, some, when are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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