This is an analysis of the poem The Great Western Plains that begins with:
The little voices of the prairie dogs
Are tireless . . . ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcc aXcX dXadX XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101000101 1100 101110 01010100110 1110001001 11011101 11010101 010101101 01101010 11111101 01101101 01111111 100010111 11110101 0111001101 010110110 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Great Western Plains;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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