This is an analysis of the poem Wildcat that begins with:
Amid the wildernesses vast
That gird the Mississippi's shores,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXdbdaeaeaaddfcgc hdhdff idhdaagbabjjbkXkXdddii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,6,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001 11010101 11111111 10110101 01110101 01010001 100110001 11011101 01010101 110010101 11010100 01110101 01000101 11011101 01010111 11010101 11110101 010101001 11110101 01110101 010100101 11010101 11010101 010011101 01010101 01000101 11011101 01001111 10110101 010001001 11110101 01010101 11011001 11010101 11101101 111000101 1011111 01010111 01011101 11000111 11011101 11010111 10010101 11010101 11111101 1101110101 11111111 01110001 11011001 10010101 110010111 01010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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; it, as, with, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, they, he are repeated.
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- summary of Wildcat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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