This is an analysis of the poem The Revenge Of Rain-In-The-Face that begins with:

In that desolate land and lone,
Where the Big Horn and Yellowstone... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcXb ccXdde fffggf hhXhhX eeaffa bbiaai jjeeee kkhbXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100111 10111101 111101 1110011 101111 1010011 1000011001 10001101 001101010 1010111 01111001 0010101 0011101 1111101 0100101 1110101 10100001 1011001 0011101 10100101 0110101 101101 100111 101000 000101 0110101 101101 111101 101101 110101 0101001 1010101 11001010 10101101 010001 110110010 10101001 11001001 100101 1010101 0111111 00110101 1101101 1011001 00110101 1111101 1101011 00100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, in are repeated.

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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