This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Range that begins with:
Only a few of us understood his ways and his outfit queer,
His saddle horse and his pack-horse, as lean as a winter steer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXdXeecXffggcccchhiidXdeeXXjjcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011010110111 010110111110101 1110110100110101 11100100100101 011110101101101 1110010100100101 110010100010111 11001001001011010 111101101111101 111010010111110101 111011100101111 10100111100101 1111111111110101 100110101101 00100101000100111 100111111111101 111101101110101 10011111101100 11111101100111 111101101111111 1111101111111010 1110101011111010 1110110101111 110011110100101 1010011100100101 11001101111011010 1111100011100101 0100101010100101 101011011100101 11100101101111 111011111111111 111111011010101 1111110111111 101111011110101 101110111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2219
- Average number of words per stanza: 442
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, as, to, he, him, for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, wishing are repeated.
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