This is an analysis of the poem The White Man's Foot that begins with:
In his lodge beside a river,
Close beside a frozen river,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdeXaccfegdbeafggbhgihXjgageiXkeegXcagJKgXdJKgXXdegacghgcAcgXXdfdghlhAgmXeXaejXicbhageacfadXeeecffXfffeiaaggeghXidaXdXXXgXgXgXXlfXhgeDXXXggnfggXXaaXcgaXXaXdgihaXfdXHXXoXggeHhiXiXceXihXgeoDXbaenfXafifggkibhhajggoddXgggahmegaoXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 230,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101010 10101010 11111110 10111011 111010110 10111110 1000100 00101110 10101010 10101010 10101011 10111110 10101010 101011010 10111010 10101110 10101010 101110011 10101010 111001010 10101010 10101011 00101010 10101010 1011001011 100111011 11101011 11101010 11101010 11011010 00111110 10110110 011010100 00111011 10111010 10111011 10101010 10101011 10101010 10001010 10101001 101111011 11101011 10011010 111010100 10111010 101111011 11101011 10011101011 101010100 1011110100 10111010 100101010 10101010 11111110 11111111 00101010 10111010 10101010 11111111 110011110 10110010 10101110 1010111000 1011110100 10111010 1000111110 11111010 10011110 10111010 101010010 10111010 110011110 10111010 10111010 1011101000 11101010 00101010 00101010 101001110 101111001 100110110 10111110 10111110 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10111010 11001010 10100011 10101011 0110010 00101010 10101010 10101110 10101010 10001010 10001010 10111011 10110010 1010111100 10100100011 101000011 10100010 10110011 10101010 10100010 100101010 10111010 101011110 10101010 10011110 11101110 1010100 10111011 10111010 10111010 10111010 10111010 101010010 01100111 10101000 00101011 10110100 10100010 1010010 00100011 1010010 101001010 100010010 11101001 11001011 11100010 10101110 001001010 00100010 00101010 1010110 011000110 10111010 101011010 10100010 10011110 00100010 10101001 10000110 111101100 11111010 10101110 101011 10111110 111010100 10101110 1111010010 1011010010 1001110010 10101010 00101110 10101011 10101011 10111010 111001110 10011110110 00111011 11000010 1010100 101001010 1011110 100111011110 00111010 00101010 111010100 10101110 10111010 101001010 11100010 10101011 10101010 10011101111 111110110 10101011 11101110 01101110 1011011 11100010 10101010 10100110 10100010 10001010 00100010 00101010 10100010 01100010 10101010 10010010 100011010 10101010 10101010 100011010 0101001011 010111010 101101010 10111110 10111010 10111011 1100010 10010110 101010110 10100010 00101110 11001010 00011010 10111010 101001010 10101110 11110110 00111110 11101010 10101110 11101010 100101010 10111111 11011010 10100110 10100110 10100110 10101110 10110010 101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 8141
- Average number of words per stanza: 1408
- Amount of lines: 230
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, and, with, of, all, that, its, seen, in, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bound, sit, when, all, from, and, till, saw, came, in, like, seen, sends, swarms, springs are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines river, grasses, me, time, water, so, vision are repeated).
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