This is an analysis of the poem As Red Men Die that begins with:
Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?
A taunt more galling than the Huron's hiss? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdd eeffgghha XffXXfff iihh hhhhXb hhjjkkffll ffmm iifffflXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,8,4,6,10,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010110 0111010101 1111011111 1100010101 1011010111 1101011111 1001010101 1101010101 1010010111 1100010001 1001010101 0111010101 0101111101 1001010101 01011101001 1101000101 11110101 101110010101111 1001010101 0111010101 1011111111 111001011100 0111110101 1100110111 1000100110001 1101101101 0101010101 0111010101 0111111101 01000101001 1101100101 0101010111 1110010111 1101110111 1101010101 0101100101 0101110101 0101011101 0101110111 1111111101 0101000101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1001010100 10110101101 1001100101 0101010111 1111001101 0101110101 0101010101 1011010101 1011010111 1011010101 01110100101 1101 110001 1101100001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 58
- 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; he, to, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, will, where, songs are repeated.
The author used the same word captive at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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