This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Hiawatha: X that begins with:

X. Hiawatha's Wooing
"As unto the bow the cord is,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdbX efbaXgX XXfhcghX XfXXgX XccabgX eXgGCdbXX XgXXiXc egXfcX eXcjIi kfdiagXifX icaeXXfkga DgXgllXgbgg mbcjfXbbbbgcb glddbndfddbXol Xbfbbd ggpndX gcbdbhX dXXblgbn gXhdXbfafff feXfbcXlXo mfXXelglfcGc GfilglbX gmhedhX aggX fggjlDXiXX GgnaiiidbgXcgX FIcpe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,7,8,6,7,9,7,6,6,10,10,11,13,14,6,6,7,8,11,10,12,8,7,4,10,14,8,10,12,9,6,7,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010 101001010 11001010 11111011 11111110 101010100 10101010 10101110 101110010 10101010 10101000 00101010 00100100 1001001100 10101100 101101110 10101111 101001011 00101010 10111011 001000100 11001100 11101010 100101100 101000100 11101110 101110100 10111100 101111010 11101010 11001010 10101010 11111010 111110100 10101010 100100100 10101010 10001010 10001010 10100110 11101110 011111100 001101100 11001100 101011010 00100100 10110100 10011011 11111000 11111110 10101010 101100110 11101100 11110010 11110010 111011000 10101010 00100100 00101010 10101111 10100010 11001010 00100010 11101110 10111011 10101011 11100110 111010010 10101000 10011010 1000010110 1000011110 10110010 10111011 10111010 11111010 0010101010 0010101010 10101010 00110011 10101010 11100110 10110010 10101010 00100100 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101000 10101010 10101110 00101110 10100010 11101111 00110110 11101110 10100011 10111010 101010010 10001110 11101010 11101010 111110100 10111110 10101110 10111110 11100010 00101110 11111010 111000011 10101010 10101011 11100010 10111010 11101011 10101010 11101110 00101000 10101110 10101010 11111011 10100010 10101110 00101010 10001011 10101010 10101010 11100010 101001010 11101011 10111011 1000111000 10101010 10101010 10110010 10101111 11001010 10101111 101101000 10101010 101111100 00100100 11101010 11101110 10101010 10101010 11101011 11001010 00111000 10101010 11111010 10100010 10101010 10101011 10101110 10101010 11101110 10101110 11001110 00101010 11101100 11110011 11100010 1000010 10101110 10100110 00100100 00101110 100100011 10001111 101010100 101001000 10101010 11101010 10111010 11101110 11101010 11111010 10001010 100010010 10101010 10101110 10101010 11101010 10111010 11101010 100100010 111110000 10101010 11101111 10101010 11101010 10101011 11111010 1001011100 0110010 10111010 00101010 00100100 00101010 10011010 10111010 10111011 10111010 10110010 10101000 10000010 10000011 1011110000 10101010 10110010 11101011 100001110 100011011 11111111 11111011 111111010 10101010 00101010 10101010 10001010 11101110 101110100 10101010 10100010 10111010 10101110 10101010 11101010 10111110 00101010 10111010 00111010 11101010 10101011 10101110 10101010 11101010 10101011 101001011 00110011 101001100 100111010 10101110 10101110 00110011 10101000 10101010 10100100 10001010 10100010 10101010 101001010 10101010 10111110 10100111 10110100 100111010 101010110 1010010 100111010 101010100 00101100 10101010 100010110 10111011 10101111 11111000 00101110 10101010 100010110 10101010 101001010 10111110 111010100 10111010 10111010 00101100 101111100 10110010 10001010 10001010 00100100 00101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 284
  • 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; bring, be, to, his, of, he, and, she, us, over are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words though, bring, be, that, to, through, and, pleasant, sat, gave, listened, in, over, thus, brought are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, from 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 dacotahs, not, arrows, us, branches are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase better connects the lines.

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