This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Red Man that begins with:

When the palefaces came in their whitewing'd canoes,
Long ago, from the sun-rising sea... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcDcD deaeae bfbfcgXGXG cXcXegeGeG
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101000101100001 101001101 111101110101 101101111 111101101001 101011001 1011011010101 0011010001 1011011010111 0011010001 1111101101 101001101 101101101101 1110001101 111101101101 111001101 101001011001 101001001 101011011111 111101001 1111011110001 111111001 101110101110 111101011 1011010010101 111101011 101111001001 101101011 101110011111 101101011 1010111010011 001111101 1011010100001 10111011001 1010111010111 10111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; came, we, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, for are repeated.

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  • summary of The Song Of The Red Man;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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