This is an analysis of the poem Evangeline: Part The Second. Ii. that begins with:

IT was the month of May. Far down the Beautiful River,
Past the Ohio shore and past the mouth of the Wabash,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXacXdXXeadXfdcgadeacgXdceXddfaadcheXdXifbfhaa XXijfkedeefddffa hXXeXdddagcXXacXjhfci dadaceceXgXddcbecXdcXbXgjecdgchXddfX bcXfaaaejadakceXXcedcXgji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,16,21,36,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111010010 10010111010010 000101001111010 100101111110010 01010110110000100 10100101110010 11010010011010010 1110110110111111 111111101011010 1010011010011000 0001011101010100 10101011010010010 110111010010010 1101111010011010 11101011101100 1011011001110010 10100101110011 100110101010110 10011111010010 100111101010010 1011010010010010 101001001010111 1001001011010010 11010111010110 100101010010010 11101111000100100 101001010110010 11011010100100010 10110100110010010 10010111010011 111011101010010 100101101011010 101100101010111 1101111001010010 100111101111010 11010010110010010 111101011110010 11100111011010 11011011010010110 11000010111100100 1101001011010010 100111010010010 1101101011000010 111001101011010 11000011011010110 100101110011011 0101001101010010 1110010110010010 1100100111110110 1001101001110010 110101010101000 1111011111011010 11011000110010011 100101011010010 1001001001110010 100001001110010 10010011010100010 11010111010010 1101011101011010 101011101011011 1011110010010011 11110111110010 1101010010010010 11001101110010 10010011010011010 1101011010011010 100101010010000 101001011011000 1101011010010010 10010101010010 1101001001001010 10010111001010 101101000010010010 101111001010010 110100111010010 1001010011111010 101111110011010 1001111010100100 100111010010010 100011010101011 111001011010010 111001010010010 001101110010010 110100101111100010 1101011010110010 1001010010010010 101101001010010 100111110110010 1101101001010110 1001110010010110 101101010010111 1101011010011010 110100101110010 10010110010010110 1001010100011010 1011001110010010 1101001101010100 1111101101010011 11011010111010010 10011110010010010 10110011010011010 10010111010110010 100101010011010 100100101110100 10101111110010 000101110111010 111101101010110 1001110101110010 1011111111110 1110010011111110 10111110111010110 100111101111010 01010101011010010 111011101011010 10010011111010010 1010011010111110 10110011010010011 101101001011010 1000010010110011 10010100101010010 1001110011010010 11111100100100 011011011010110 100101010010010 10010010010110011 100100111110110 11110101110110010 10011101010010 1001001011010010 111000010100010 11010101010010 100101101110010 10010010010110010 1001101111110010 100101110010010 1011101101110010 101100111110010 1101011010010100 101011010011000 1101001110010010 11100101011011 11010010010101010 0101110111100010 10110011011011000 11010101010011 1010011010010010 100111101010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1860
  • Average number of words per stanza: 327
  • Amount of lines: 147
  • Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; of, by, and, her, my, to, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.

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