This is an analysis of the poem Continental Divide that begins with:
Handcuffed by time,
I travel across this broad...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdabebdc Xfcgbhfa ijbbk l fed bfefi Xh lmcX eh jhnbkbfcff lXkbc bei imad hDfeDf heg nXgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,5,1,3,5,2,4,2,10,5,3,4,6,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1100101 1000100 1010 1011 010 0101001 10101 101 1001111 10101 11001 010101010 0110001 010101 010001 110 1101 0111 111110 011110 110011 01 11110 0101 1101 111 1010 111101 1111100101 011010 101011 110 110010 1101010 1010110100 111011 001100 01110 111 10110 11 111000010 111111 00010 010110 010101 11000101 110001 1101110 1010 10111 101 010010 110 01 1010101010 01100101 10101 0101010010 10101 0100111 010011 1110 11101 111 101111010 11101 0010001 10 0101010 101 1111 1001001 011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, our are repeated.
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