This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Kwasind that begins with:

Far and wide among the nations
Spread the name and fame of Kwasind;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbacdXeaaeXXaefXebfXXgXXhihccfcddjabjceddXfefeXbeaeafegdfXjXeiaahhiXdhXeXaahaaXcaXchfiXejXaXjXgcacfbheeahehXfbjjheXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 120,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 10111010 11101010 11101010 10100110 101001010 10101010 101010011 1001010011 100101010 11101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10100110 10110110 10111110 11100010 11100010 10101111 10100010 10101010 101001011 101001010 10101010 00101010 101010010 10101010 00101110 00111010 10111010 11111011 11111011 10101010 11111111 10110011 10110011 01101010 10110110 10101010 01101010 10101011 11101010 10110011 10110011 00111000 10001010 10011010 10110010 10101010 11101110 00101010 111101010 10111011 10101010 10001011 11100011 11101010 10101010 00101011 10101011 00101110 10101010 00101000 10100010 10100010 00101010 00100011 101001010 10101010 00100010 101001100 101011111 10101110 100101010 00111010 10101011 101110010 10101011 11101010 10101011 10101010 001001100 10111011 10110111 10100110 10101111 10001010 10101010 10110010 10101110 11101010 10111001 10101000 101010011 10101010 10101010 00100110 11111110 10111011 11101010 101100011 1001001010 11001010 11111110 11100010 10101010 11111010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10111010 101000011 10101010 10101010 11101010 10101110 11111010 10001110010 10100001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 692
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; kwasind, his, could, him, of, as, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, they, if, by, all, in, nowhere, was, gathered, very, insects, from, like, as, underneath are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kwasind, wudjies, him, tree are repeated).

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