This is an analysis of the poem Evangeline: Part The First. Iv. that begins with:

PLEASANTLY rose next morn the sun on the village of Grand-Pré.
Pleasantly gleamed in the soft, sweet air the Basin of Minas,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbcaadeXfgebhbegbXg hXhiXXgbejXdeekbi aghegkXXjebleabadeaXjXbeeaebebXXeiehaXbg lXbajjammbeaghmlXaXjdX bhXhl elhcXejeXbgelhaXlhlefh helbcbXbbjXbhlc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,17,40,22,5,22,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111011010011 100100111010010 1010110011010110 1110100010110010 100101101010010 1001001001110010 101101100110010 100101011010011 101110110010011 111101101010010 11010111111011 111001011010010 100101011011011 1001011011100010 100111111010110 100101011110010 110101011111010 11010011010011010 10101101010010 11010111010110 100100111011110 1001010010010010 10010111010100 10010010011010010 10101111010011 1101011010110100 100100110010011010 1111001100011011 11010011010100100 1101011010110010 100111001010010 110101010101010 11000101110010 1001001010010010 10010111010011 111101011010010 1001011010110010 100101110010011 1101001110010100 10010010110011011 110010101010011 1001011101111011 100101110110010 110100111010010 100101001110010 1001011010101100 1001010110010010 1101001010000010 1101010110010010 1001001001010010 110101111010010 1011110111110010 1111010110011110 1001011101111010 11111011010000111 101111110110011 1000001111100010 00100101111111 1011001010110010 100110111100100100 1101001001010010 1001001101010011 110101001110010 100111001010011 10010111011010 11010010010010010 100101101010111 101101001010110 11101111010011 110100111111000 1101011110010010 1001100010010011 11010101011010 11011010010110110 10010010110110010 1011010111111110 1111111010010010 11010111110010 001001110010010 101001010110100 10010011010010010 10010010010110010 11100111110010 100111001010110 11110010100010011 100111110110111 1000111110011111 10101101011010 00010110110111010 1111010110011010 000100101111010 101001111010010 1101011001010011 1011001110110010 111110101110011 11011100101010011 110101111100111 1001001110010010 11110010010010011 110100111110011 110101001010010 10111010011010010 1011011111011010 11111111110010010 11010011010010010 11110010010011111 10100101010110 110101010110011 1001001010011010 1001010010010111 101001011010010 10110101111010 1101011010100110 1101001101110010 110100101110010 1001011101011011 1011101100101011 110100101011110 1001001010010010 100101111010110 110100111000010 1001110100010010 11001001010011010 111111101010110 110111101010010 1010011010010011 1010010010010010 110101101010110 1110011011011010 111101111011010 101101010011110 10010011010010010 10111010010010010 1000101011011010100 1011111110010010 1010011011010010 00100111010011 1101010010111010 1001011010010010 10111010110011010 11010011110010010 11010111100100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 234
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and, of, his, i, you, ', their, her, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pleasantly, there, echoed, let are repeated.

    The author used the same word meanwhile at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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