This is an analysis of the poem Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast that begins with:

You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,
How the handsome Yenadizze ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbaXCcdXeXaefgfhigaeXjhXXXXekgXclcXjbdmfcaeidXbdDXXXXcnebboeebbmXXXdbXXgjbggegbbckgXbbebeabXbccbgccbejjcjgcbmjeeXbXXjaefbXlbbXADXXXcgAlcbemfXoffjdaaaoogmoobbeeXmeebbbdaoooeXXaXCXgjjbebbXccacfcadkebXceeebbXcencfadXXnlgXcbooeafcXccDXXXcbgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 240,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 1010100 1110010 1010100 10100010 10101110 1100110 101001010 10101010 10110110 10111110 10101010 100101100 1110010 10101011 11101010 10101010 11101010 11111010 10001011 10101010 10100010 10101010 10111010 10111010 10011110 10001110 11101010 10101000 11111100 11100110 100110110 10111010 10100100 10110010 10101010 10101010 10101100 10101010 10101010 10111010 11101110 11001110 01101010 10111110 00110011 10100111 10111010 111101110 11111010 10101011 10110110 10111110 111011000 10101110 1010100 10101010 10101011 10101010 11101111 00101011 00101111 11101010 01101110 10001110 10001011 101001111 11101000 10010100 10101110 10111101 10101010 10101110 11101010 111110010 11001010 11101110 100111110 10100011 10111010 10101011 10101010 01101010 10110010 10101110 10111010 10101110 00101010 11101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 00101110 00101110 10101110 10101010 11101010 10101110 01101011 10111011 10101010 11101110 10101010 101001010 10111010 10111001 10111010 10101011 10101010 00101110 11101010 10101110 10001011 10101011 10111110 111010011 10101011 11001010 10101110 10101010 10101110 10101010 111010100 00101010 1110100 00101010 00100110 00101010 10011100 10111010 10110110 10111110 111011000 1010100 10101110 10101010 10111010 10111010 10111010 11101001 100001010 101100010 10110010 10111111 101101011 11101110 10100010 11101010 101101010 001100010 11100110 00111110 101101011 10111011 100101011 00111110 100011101 10111111 10101010 001010110 101111010 11101110 10101010 10111110 101101010 11101010 10111010 10111010 1000111010 10101011 11101010 11111011 101111011 101101011 10101010 100011000 1010100 10101110 1100110 101001010 10101100 10001010 100001111 10101011 10111110 10101010 10101010 00101011 1010110 10111010 10111010 10101010 10111010 101010010 10111010 11100010 11101110 11101110 11111111 10111010 10111011 10111010 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111010 11111010 1010010 101001010 10101011 10101010 110001010 10111110 101001010 11100010 10101100 11010110 10111010 00101010 10111010 10101110 10111110 10101110 10101011 10100011 10101010 1110010 1101110 101001010 11110010 11101010 11011010 10110110 10111110 111011000 1101010 101101010 11101010 0100010 001011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8380
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1430
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • 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; how, more, of, and, with, dance, in, round, to, thou, meet, awake, could, so, none, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, as, and, only, dance, he, in, little, on, to, till, sang, looking, thou, when, jealous, saw, would, ever, none, how, sat, tell, you are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hazard, me, beloved, him, could, tree are repeated).

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