This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Hiawatha Xvii: The Hunting Of Pau-Puk Keewis that begins with:

Full of wrath was Hiawatha
When he came into the village,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXXdeffXgDDhXedXfeXddeihjekcadDDLXmfXeXfncdmoeeXdeXmmcXXXmmdmmmdXmmdXmkdhXXhhhdhdddkmddXdomokXmdkXhXcdhdmXmXemlDmXmdmcpdmddgXXdocdaXhoohdcdmkpmXXpomaXodXhXedmdmhXXeXhcomidXfafXjfffefdadXdoodemjcXgbdmDhXeddffamXddXeecXecddeeehdhbhbmXmdoaXoehdeXkebhmmmmh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 365,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 11100010 10100010 10101010 10101010 00101110 10111010 10111110 10101010 11101010 10101110 10101011 11111010 11111010 11111011 11101111 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101110 00101110 11111110 10001010 00100010 10111110 10010010 00111010 00100011 11101010 10100010 10100010 10111010 00100010 11111010 11111010 11111011 11101011 10111010 1111110 10101110 11101110 11110010 00100010 00101110 11101010 00111010 00101010 11101010 10101010 10101110 10111110 10101110 11101010 101101010 00101010 10111010 11101010 10101110 10111110 100101010 101110010 11110010 00111001 11110010 11100010 11100010 11110110 11100010 10001010 00111110 11101010 11101010 11100010 100111011 10101110 11101010 10111110 100101010 10101011 10101011 10111011 10111011 10111011 10101010 10101010 00101010 10001010 11111010 10111010 10111010 00101110 11001001 10100110 11111010 11101110 11101010 11100010 10110010 10101010 11011011 10001010 10001010 10011110 10101011 10100110 00111011 10111010 11100010 111011110 11111110 10101010 10101010 11101110 01101011 11101010 10001110 10011110 10101010 00101110 10101010 11101010 10101011 10001010 11111110 11100010 11101010 11011011 11101010 11111110 10101010 11101010 00101010 00101110 10101010 10100010 11101010 10101010 10101010 101011100 11101010 11111110 10101010 11101010 10111010 10101011 10101010 00100010 10101110 11101011 11101110 11101010 10111010 10111110 11111110 11101010 11111110 01111111 10111110 10111010 10111010 11101110 11111110 10100010 10101001 11111110 11111110 10101110 10101010 10100010 10011011 10101010 10101010 10110010 10101110 00101110 10000010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10001111 00110010 010101010 0111000010 10101110 10101010 10101011 10101010 00101010 10101110 10101010 10001010 10101010 10101010 11111110 11101010 11100011 11100011 10011110 10011011 11001010 00101110 11111110 11101010 10001111 01111010 00101110 00111110 11101010 11101010 11100010 10111010 11101110 00111010 11001010 00101110 11101110 11101110 10111110 11110110 11111011 11111010 11111111 10101111 10101110 10101110 101101011 10101011 10111010 10101010 10100010 00100010 001010010 10100010 10101010 10101110 10110010 10111110 11101010 10101010 1011010 10100010 10101110 10111011 10101010 11101010 10101110 10001010 10111110 11001010 10101011 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11101011 10101011 11001010 10101010 00101110 10101010 10101011 10111110 10101110 0010100 10111010 10111010 10111010 11111010 11111011 11101011 11111111 10111011 01101111 10101110 11101010 10100011 10111011 10101010 10001011 10100010 10111110 00111010 11001011 10001110 10101010 10111110 10101010 10111011 10101111 101011 10101110 11001010 00101011 10101111 10110010 10100010 10101011 10101100 10111010 00101110 10111010 00101011 10111010 10111011 00101000 11100011 10101010 1011100 10110010 10111110 00101011 00101100 11101010 10101010 11000010 1010100 11101110 10101110 00101010 101001110 10110010 10110010 10111110 11000010 10110010 00111011 10101011 1010100 10100010 10101110 10111010 10101010 10101110 1010100 10011010 10001010 10001110 10101110 10101010 101001010 10100010 10101010 10101011 11111110 10101010 111111000 10101110 10111010 10110010 11111010 10110110 01001110 10101010 1010010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101011 10101010 10101010 100111110 1011101110 10101010 101000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 12243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2217
  • Amount of lines: 365
  • 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; his, not, and, me, your, ', of, they, now, with, from, in, smote, ended, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, found, from, made, to, where, on, let, fell, down, black, 'make, heard, he, vain, bore, till, saw, toward, now, 'pishnekuh, with, lest, fast, rose, knew, dead, but, opened, called, and, lay, ended, all, chief, lingers are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is, keewis, water, him, downward, wind, eagle are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases larger, hiawatha connect the lines.

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