This is an analysis of the poem The Passing Of Scotty that begins with:
WE THROW us down on the dusty plain
When the gold has gone from the west,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebebfcfc cdcdghgh ibibijijXbhbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 10111001 1111110101 101011001 101100111 11101101 100101101 110101 11111101 101011011 1110111101 10111101 111111111 11100110 111011101 10111111 111101111 111111 1111111111 1011101 111100111 0011101 11111001001 11100101 11100101 00100101 111101111 0101111 1010110101 11100101 1100000111 0011111 111111111 0010101 1110100101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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