This is an analysis of the poem The Song My Paddle Sings that begins with:
West wind, blow from your prairie nest,
Blow from the mountains, blow from the west...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbXXaaaacccddeeaaaffcccbbggXhhiiibbgggffeeeeXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 100101001 010100101 110011111 11 11111 110010101 111100101 110101110 11011001 11111111 110011001 110100101 11 11101 111010101 110101101 110011101 100100101 101100111 11 10110 110100101 010100101 1100100101 11 10101 011101111 110101101 010100111 11 10101 0100100110 11010101 101101101 11 00101 11111111 011100101 010111100 11 111001 110011101 110101101 010110101 11 10101 110100101 111010101 011100101 11 01001 100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1611
- Average number of words per stanza: 298
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; west, blow, from, you, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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