This is an analysis of the poem The Klondike that begins with:
Never mind the day we left, or the day the women clung to us;
All we need now is the last way they looked at us. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcc aadecc ffXXcc ggeecc aabXcc bbfehh bbiadd jjefcc jjijcc bbbXcc bbcfXhXbbijcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111101010101 111100111111 101011101010 111111010101 1001111111010 111110101010 1110101101111101 111111110101 110011111010 111011010011 11101111010 10101010101010 101111111011100 101111011100 11001111110 11111011111 100111010101010 1010110101010 111110101100101 11111111101101 111011111010 1011111111 1110101101010 11101011001010 1111101111010101 101101011101 10011111101111 01110111011 1110111111010 111111111010 1111111101111110 1111100111100 111011100011 1010110111 1111111101110 11101011111110 111111111010110 111111110100 1111101101010 1011010101 10111110100010 10101011101010 101111111010111 1111111110101 101011101011 11111010101 1111101011010 1110111111010 1101111111111101 1001101010101 100111010100110 01010101011111 10111010100110 110101010101010 1111111101110101 1110111000111 11101111111 1110111011 1001111111010 11111010101010 1100101111010101 1111001010101 111011101010 10101111011 1101111101011 1010101111110 111111101010101 1111110110101 101011101010 111111011 1111111111010 1010110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, far, that, say, he, and, flow, way, twelve, who, them, by, or, have, to, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words far, we, say, he, twelve, flow, leave are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, it, there, them, now, do, him are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word river at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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