This is an analysis of the poem Prairie Greyhounds (C.P.R. "No. 1," Westbound) that begins with:
I swing to the sunset land--
The world of prairie, the world of plain, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbba aaaaa XcccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1100111 010100101 010101111 010110101 10100101 1100111 011110101 011100111 011101101 1011111 110010010 110101101 110100101 110100101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; world, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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