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

In those days the Evil Spirits,
All the Manitos of mischief,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcdbbeXfXXdghXhhidXadjadXhbiikjabbbehXXXlXXkdaXiijjmkdhhgjXdbbbXjnXXXiXXXkXXXnjXXkXXXalbbkjhXdjjXiidaibbXmjdaifjbffjbHXAaagbnHXAanXhnkfHXAadlbiiakiedikXdXhgkohijdbbbiabXhaeXhibndXnnocikihnhindefdddkefaijdXliXdddXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 216,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101010 10100010 1010010 1011100 10011010 11101110 11101010 00101010 10101110 1010100 101101111 101010110 1001110 10101110 10101111 101111110 111011110 1110010 10101110 10111010 10101011 10110010 10101010 10101011 10101010 10101010 10101010 1011100 10101110 10101011 00111110 1001001110 10101010 10100010 10101010 10111011 101001011 11100010 10001010 1001010 10100100 11001100 001011 00101010 11101010 10101000 10101010 10110010 10100010 101010100 10101110 00101110 00101010 101111010 100101010 10101010 10100110 11101010 11101010 00100110 00100110 11101000 10101011 11111011 11101011 10010101 100001000 10101010 100111010 1011100 101001000 10100011 00111011 10110100 1000100 101011000 00101010 1010010 1000100 101010100 11111010 10100010 10101000 1000100 10101010 101001100 101001010 00100100 10100010 10101010 10101011 00110101 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101110 101010100 11111010 10101010 1111100 11101110 10101010 00101010 11101010 10101010 10001010 10101111 10101010 11001010 101011010 11111110 10101010 10111110 101111011 100111010 11111111 01101011 10011011 11111010 10101110 11111110 11111000 1011001010 1001001010 10111010 11111011 10111111 11111110 11111110 111110101 1011001010 1000001010 101111010 11101010 10101010 10101010 11101111 11101011 11111110 11111000 1011001010 10111001010 111110010 100101010 111001011 11001110 10101010 11101010 10111010 10001010 10101010 10101010 10001010 10101010 1110100 00101010 001011 1010010 11101010 01111010 11101111 10101110 00111110 10101010 101000010 00110010 10101011 10101111 101010101 10001010 101001111 101010010 11111010 110111010 11101010 00100100 00100010 00100011 00101111 10101010 10111011 1010100 11101011 11101011 10101011 11101011 11111010 10110011 101111010 10101010 10101110 11001010 00101110 0010001 00101111 11101010 10101011 10101010 100111110 10111110 10111110 11101010 1011010011 101101011 10000110 10000110 10111010 111110100 11101010 10101010 10101010 101000110 10101010 11111010 101000100 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7390
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1241
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, and, with, of, his, he, their, him, to, i, from, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, to, waved, sighed, filled, i, from, through, ruler, where, better, all are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, followed, him, lamenting, me, chorus, not are repeated).

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  • summary of Hiawatha's Lamentation;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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