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

Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaXbcdcefgfhfhaagaggXddgddfibjdakalXlXXabhamabfnkhofmleXfbXboaoXXffgameXnfhaabXhbhaXXXaabXmmXXXXajdXXXXhehXnfeoXhXXenbmXpqXdimXddobgohXaadkbqqhhXaXXhggXbbiFnfXmXjfhXappaaaibkFXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 180,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 10111010 10101010 10111110 10101010 101101011 101001110 10101010 10001010 10101010 00101011 10111010 11111111 11101110 00110111 00101010 11111010 10101110 10101010 10100010 10100010 10100010 10100010 101111100 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101110 0010010 11101110 10101110 10100010 01101011 11011010 00101010 10101110 10101010 10111101 11101000 10101101 11101000 10101000 10111010 10101110 11101010 10111110 111001010 10111010 10101110 10001010 101001010 00111010 00101010 10101010 10101111 10111110 00101011 00101010 00101000 000111010 10111110 1100010 11001100 011010010 11101110 11111110 11111000 11101000 10101010 10101110 11101010 11111010 10100010 10100011 10001000 111101010 01101010 10110110 00101010 01101010 11101110 00100100 10110010 10101110 10111010 10101010 10110110 10101110 00100100 01101110 00101010 11100010 10101000 11111010 10101010 10101000 100100100 11111100 100110011 11111110 10101011 100010010 00100100 11111100 100111110 11111010 10110010 11101010 10101010 1010100 101001010 10101010 100101010 11101010 10101000 10010010 100100 10111110 10101010 10101010 10101010 11001010 10001000 11111011 11101111 10001000 11100010 10110010 10011110 10101000 10111011 10101011 10101010 10101110 10101010 11100010 11111110 10101000 10101010 11101110 11101011 10111010 01101110 101111111 10001111 10100110 00111010 11101000 00101110 00101110 10101010 10001010 10001010 10001110 11101000 111010110 10111110 10101010 0010001 00111010 10100010 10101010 00101010 00101000 11101011 10110010 11100010 100111000 11111010 11101001 11111001 11101010 11101010 10101010 10111010 11100010 11111110 0010001 00100100 00100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5819
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1057
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thicker, deeper, his, oh, of, hungry, them, as, her, with, food, hear, ', hiawatha, in, my, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, fell, in, hungry, shuddered, at, with, give, through, than, and, she, hear, heard, would, that, from, all, come, soon, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines winter, them, summer, rushing, him, there, ermine, you are repeated).

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