This is an analysis of the poem Nancy Hanks that begins with:
Prairie child,
Brief as dew, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dede dfdf dada bcdc cece Xaaa Xbeb XdXd edXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 111 11010 101 101 01001 1010 101 101 0111 1101 1101 1101 0101 1010 101 101 01010 11110 1010 11110 1101 11110 1101 1101 1111 11110 1001 1010 111 11110 1101 0111 1111 1101 10100 10010 1111 0101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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