This is an analysis of the poem Blessing The Cornfields that begins with:

Sing, O Song of Hiawatha,
Of the happy days that followed,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcXdeXdfddghhfcdhigXdjkcXkeXkbcXhdKfedlXmXXnnmjbdjecmKoecpXahfXddDdahhafXbeXXXXhjbXdcdjmXkhcjXbDddmmaXpbdemXachmddfXqddXdddhdfdfXglkbbapkehkddXdmdhDkckkqkpdXincXXfkhXkcXXhhbhXigXfXgbjeXXXhkbkddleddomhfggdddfXdheXBDfXXfhddchdXhkDhmdBD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 235,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 00101110 00100100 00101110 101000100 10100011 10101010 10101011 10011110 10111010 11101010 101010010 10101110 10101110 10111010 10101010 11100010 10110011 10101110 10101010 10111110 10110100 10111010 10101010 1101010011 10011110 10001100 110101010 10101010 10100100 101101010 11101110 10101110 11101000 00101010 101101011 10101010 00100010 10111011 10001011 10011011 1001110100 00111010 101001100 10101010 11111111 11111111 11011010 10111010 10101110 10100011 10111010 10101010 100110110 10100111 10101010 11101111 101001111 111001010 101011111 1010100 101101110 10101010 11100011 101010000 10111011 10101110 1001010 00101010 11111010 10111010 01101010 10101010 10101110011 10101000 101001010 111101110 10101000 100101010 101001100 10101010 00111010 10101010 10101110 10111000 10101011 10101010 00111011 11101110 10100010 11101000 10100010 10001010 10001010 11111010 1111110110 10101011 1001010 10101010 11101110 100101011 10101110 10101010 10100100 101100011 100111010 10101010 10101010 10101011 100010110 10101010 10101010 110001010 11110011 10011101010 1011010 10111010 111011000 111001011 111101011 10101010 11101011 001001011 10101110 10101110 11101110 10111010 01101010 100101011 10101110 10100100 10111110 11101011 10111010 11101010 11101010 00101010 00101111 10100010 11101011 101010010 01101010 11111110 11101010 101111100 10101011 10100010 10100010 1010010 1001010 10111010 10101010 001001111 11100010 11101011 00110010 100110011 100100010 10100010 01000011 10111011 10101110 101001000 11111110 10001011 10100010 10100010 10011010 101001010 10101010 1011100 101101011 00111010 10101110 10111110 10101010 00101110 00101010 10111110 10101010 11000110 11101000 100111110 10111010 10101110 11100010 11100100 11001110 001011100 10101010 10100010 01001110 11101010 10111010 00100011 00100011 10100010 10101011 101110100 10001011 01001010 111010010 00111010 10011010 01101110 101001011 10101011 10101010 110011010 10110010 10111110 1000111010 100111011 111010100 1000111010 01101011 110001110 10101010 10110010 101001010 11111010 11101011 10011110 11111110 10101010 100001011 100110110 10111010 1010010 1001010 111000010 101010011 1011001010 1000111010 01101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1378
  • Amount of lines: 235
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, to, when, nor, with, hear, and, her, on, him, his, its, them, heard, like are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, sing, buried, waved, stripped, so, nor, hear, on, he, waiting, till, as, you, vainly, of, let, to, heard, found, nushka are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, ravens, laughter, husking are repeated).

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