This is an analysis of the poem A Lament For The Wissahiccon that begins with:
The waterfall is calling me
With its merry gleesome flow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab BbbCXDD eebbeeaa aaX BddbbbCXDD afafggaaa Bbaa hhCXDD iiiedXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,8,3,10,9,4,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 0010101 101111001 0101101 11111111 01010101 01011101 1111 0101 11011111 111111 01011111 11000101 110010101 00010101 11110111 01011101 1101 11001 11111101 11000111 0111010 11111111 01011101 11000101 11010101 00010101 10110111 1111 0101 11011111 111111 010111101 00010111 01110101 01111101 01110101 11000101 1101 0001 01100101 11111111 101100111 11010111 01010111 11011111 111011001 1111 0101 11011111 111111 11100101 01100111 01010111 011111 110010101 011101100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, go are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, a are repeated.
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