This is an analysis of the poem The Opossum-Hunters that begins with:
Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting
With the winds above them fleeting, hurry to the distant seas,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababacdcac eafaca ggfgXg Xceecfc fhdhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010101010 001010101000101 1010101001101010 101010101010101 1010111010001010 101110101000101 10101010101110110 101011101010101 0111101010101010 101110100110101 1011101010101010 101010101010111 1011101110111011 101010101010111 1011111010101010 1010101000101001 1110101010101010 101010101010101 1010101010100010 101010101010101 1010111011101110 101110100010101 10111011001101010 111010101010101 1010101010101110 101010100010101 1011101110110011 101001111 1011101 1010101010101010 111110101010101 10101001011111010 111110101011111 1010101000101010 101010101111111 1010111001111110 111110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, of, us, till are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, through, till are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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