This is an analysis of the poem Hiawatha's Childhood that begins with:

Downward through the evening twilight,
In the days that are forgotten, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcXXdbceedcXAFcgXccFadXcXcbaabhXXXfcXhihjccXckcllmdXdeXXjXeahXXdXXacidddXmgcXhXhXiiXibackcedbccccmccdcdXhgcbinadgnXddaXEjdadXbfXEoajXXaadXEXpXmpKddIXpKccjeIXXddXmaccbmadqXXmciXXXXiXcnhXrkXqdXioeddncieaerfeierhlbXedelliaddmeeXXXmXdemXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 235,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011 00111010 001000010 00111100 10100100 10111010 11100010 10001011 10100010 10100110 10101010 10101011 11001100 10101011 10100011 10101010 101101010 1001010100 10101110 10101010 10100011 00111011 11001010 11101100 10110010 10100100 11101010 10111010 00100011 00100011 11001010 10111010 100101000 00111000 10101111 11101011 11101010 101111110 11101010 10111010 10111110 101010010 100001110 101010110 10100100 10101010 10001010 10001010 11101010 10101110 11111010 11101010 10100100 1001010 00101010 10111110 10101000 10101110 11101100 1011010110 101101111 11111110 100010000 101011 10101110 10100100 10001100 10101010 10111011 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101110 10101100 10101010 11001010 10101110 10101110 10101110 1001010110 11001010 100111010 10011010 00111010 101110100 10110011 00111010 11100010 100010010 10110010 100011111 10101010 00101010 10111010 11001011 10101010 10001011 10111010 10101010 101000011 10100010 10101010 11001011 101001010 10101111 10101010 00100010 10101110 11101010 10110011 101110101 101011011 101011010 11011010 10111111 1011111000 10110010 100100010 10111110 1010011000 10010010 1001001010 10110110 10001111 10101110 10010111100 10110010 00101011 1010011000 10010010 10010010111 101100010 10100010 11111110 1001100110 11101111 10100010 101011010 100101110000 10010010 100101110 10011010 101011100 10101010 101001010 11111110 11111010 11101010 100100110 101000100 01111010 11111110 10101110 10101110 10111110 10101110 100100110 101000100 1100110 101001010 101001010 10101100 10111010 00101110 01111010 10111010 10111011 11101010 101100010 10111010 11101011 111010100 10001010 10111010 10001110 101111101 101111000 1010010 10110100 101111000 10111011 10101000 01101010 111000011 11101010 101111000 10100011 10111010 10101010 10111010 10001010 101111000 11101110 10100011 11101010 10100010 00101010 11101011 10001010 11101011 11111010 11110010 11101010 10111011 100101111 10101110 10101011 10111000 10111011 10111010 10101110 10110010 10111110 10101110 10101010 10011100 11001010 10101010 10101111 11110010 10101010 10101110 10101010 101101010 11101110 1101100 10100100 00111100 10111010 00111100 10100010 10101110 10111010 11111110 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8360
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1386
  • Amount of lines: 235
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; not, and, of, their, them, he, saw, two are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, she, cut, on, there, grew, with, wooed, thus, by, oh, rose, beat, heard, little, ere, all, talking, learned, he, from, kill, sang, saw, scarce, called are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nokomis, mudjekeewis, sorrow, water, wigwam, river, arrow are repeated).

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