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

Never stoops the soaring vulture
On his quarry in the desert,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbefaaXgfeeefhXfaeeiijaadeccakecadldXcXbaaemmnofbXgfXcaeipkbenmXbiinXXlbeeacmaaeaeekXemfGfeeEXaldeEmlXaegXmXfbieXmbbmdbldGfaeEacElmXiapiadfcljfdXflcceebbfbXXXXddefnXnnXedfhninfdljaXfbegmemgmgeiffefgXiljiiejjXimjmobXbaiXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 223,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10100010 10111010 10101010 00110011 10101110 10101010 1000010010 10111010 10101010 10101110 11011110 10101010 10101010 101010011 11101110 10111010 10101010 110101011 1010010 10101110 00111110 00111011 10101010 11001010 10100010 00111010 10101110 10101011 00101010 10111011 10111010 10101011 10101011 11101011 00101010 10110010 10101010 10001010 111010100 10001010 00101100 1001010011 00101010 10101010 10101111 00100010 10101010 11101011 10100011 00111010 101010010 10101011 11101010 10111010 01101000 01101010 11001010 10101011 01111110 10110010 10111001 11111110 1001000011 100101011 100100010 100101010 10001010 10110010 11101010 11111011 00100100 00100100 10111010 00100010 00101010 10111010 10101010 11101010 10100111 11111010 11101010 10100010 10100010 11111010 100100011 10101111 11111000 11101010 10101010 001010101 10101110 10110010 10101010 10001011 10101010 10110011 10111010 10101010 01100110 100010010 10101011 00100010 10111010 10101100 10101010 101110110 10100010 101011100 10111010 101111100 100111110 100111011 10111011 00110010 11101100 11100010 11101111 11100010 101010010 10111010 11111110 10101010 10101010 10101110 10110010 10011010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101110 10101011 10111010 101111000 10111100 10100010 10111010 10101011 11101010 10101110 10100110 10111010 10111010 11111010 101001010 00101010 10111010 10100100100 10101010 00111010 00101010 10101110 10101011 10011110 10001011 11111100 11111010 11110011 10101100 11111000 11111100 10110010 10111010 10101010 11101010 11100010 10111001 0010100 10111011 10111011 10111000 1100110 10100010 10111010 10101010 11111011 11111111 11101001 11110010 11101010 10011010 10001010 110001010 11101000 100100010 0010001 11111010 00101110 11101110 11101110 10101010 10101010 101010010 11001010 00101111 10101010 111110010 11101110 101011010 11101010 10101010 111010100 11101010 100101010 11110010 00111110 10010110 10110110 11111110 11001010 11001010 11101010 11101010 10101010 10101011 10100011 10101111 10110011 10101011 11101110 111010010 00100100 00100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7423
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1313
  • Amount of lines: 223
  • 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; of, in, they, his, not, them, no, saw are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, without, from, as, seized, not, let, many, bringing, that, by, has, hither, only, four, may are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines water, her, you are repeated).

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