This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Hiawatha: Introduction And Vocabulary that begins with:

Should you ask me, whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaXaaaa CadXXaXaeXX XdaCbfgh eaaeXXX XXXaX XIaXXabafj aiefeffXI kkjddfX fXbaeaaaaXaK ahXglXgdKhfagXabmmmdiK Xiaaadfgbflmfgk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,8,7,5,10,9,7,12,22,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 11101010 00100010 00111011 00101010 00100110 01101010 11101010 10100010 11101111 10101010 00110011 00100100 00100100 00101111 10100111 10101110 10101110 00101000 00100110 11111000 11111110 11101010 11101111 10110010 00100010 00100010 00100010 10111001 00111011 00101010 10001010 10101110 01100111 10101000 01101111 10111000 11001000 111010100 10011110 10101000 00111010 10101010 10101000 101010010 10111011 10101010 10101011 10101010 10101010 10101010 11101010 101000011 10100010 10110010 10110010 10101010 00101000 00111010 11101010 10101010 10101110 11111010 11111110 10101110 11101010 11101010 10110011 10110010 10101010 101101011 10100110 11101011 10100010 10100010 11100110 10011010 00101010 11101010 10100010 11100011 10101110 10111111 10101010 10111110 100010010 00101010 11111110 11101110 10110110 100101010 10101010 11101010 10011011 10101110 10100010 11110110 11101110 10001010 00101010 11010110 10110010 101010010 11101010 10111010 11101011 10101110 101100010 100101011 10101110 10111011 10101010 00110010 11101010 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 115
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; with, from, should, of, in, by, and, how are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, from, found, in, by, sang, how, that, love, and, who, full are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hiawatha, darkness are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word hiawatha at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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