This is an analysis of the poem Golden--Of The Selkirks that begins with:
A trail upwinds from Golden;
It leads to a land God only knows, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cca cca dda eea eea ffaXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010 010011101 0010010101 1101110 1110110111 0010110101 11101010 0100100101 10010110 10101110 1011110101 1011110101 11001010 1010100111 1010110101 101111010 110100101 1010110101 111001010 10010101 10110101 1001110 110100101 1010100101 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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