This is an analysis of the poem A Cry From An Indian Wife that begins with:
My forest brave, my Red-skin love, farewell;
We may not meet to-morrow; who can tell ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaabbeeeebbXgcchhiicXjjeekkjjgghhbbddffeehhjjhhkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111111 1111010111 1101011101 1111000111 1011111111 1101011001 1101010001 0111010101 1101100101 1111110101 1101110101 1111010101 01110010101 1101110010 1111110010 1001111101 1001110001 0011011101 1101001100 1111110011 11011100101 0101010111 0101110010 1111011101 1101111101 0111010101 1011001101 1011111111 1111110011 11110011001 1111011111 1101111100 1111111101 11011100101 1101110011 11110101001 1111110101 1111110111 1111110001 1111011101 1111010101 1101010101 10010100111 1001110101 1101011111 1101010111 0101010101 0100111001 1101110101 1101011101 1101011101 1111111101 0101010101 11010011001 1101110111 1111010001 1111010111 11111100111 1111011101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2703
- Average number of words per stanza: 500
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; it, to, they, and, for, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, curse, who, think, go are repeated.
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