This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of Qu'Appelle Valley that begins with:
I am the one who loved her as my life,
Had watched her grow to sweet young womanhood; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX efefbebX ghghgigi bjbjbkbk lglXemem ngngmn mnldlXdldl gegegagachchklkX bcbX eeeeddddobobdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,6,10,16,4,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 1101011101 1011000101 1101010010 1101110101 010100100101 0111011111 01001100100000 1111001101 101001010101 1001100101 0101001101 1001010111 0101010101 1111010111 110111110000 1101110101 0101011111 0100010111 0101010001 1101110111 1101011111 01110111001 1101110101 0111011111 11010110101 1111011101 1101110111 1101110101 01010101001 1001010101 11010000101 1011110101 0111111101 0101011111 101110111110 1101110101 0101001101 1100010101 1101110011 101011010111 1111011101 0101110101 1101011101 0101110111 1001110101 1111011111 1111000111 100010000110101 1101011111 0111000111 1000001111100010000 0111110101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010001 1111010101 111101011 1101010101 11011010101 1101010101 0100110111 1111011001 1101010011 0101010001 0111011111 0101010111 1011111101 0101010111 0111111101 1111011101 111001111110 11011101011 1100110101 11111110011 10101010011000 0101011111 1111110011 0100101101 1101010001 1100110111 01000101101 1101010101 1111010101 01001010111 1101011101 0101010101 01010010111 1101010101 11110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; her, to, of, i, qu'appelle, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, 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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