This is an analysis of the poem Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Part Iv. that begins with:

From his far wigwam sprang the strong North Wind
And rush'd with war-cry down the steep ravines,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdbcdbabbefgcbdbheiijbkcXhXfaX fcace FX bb lX FX aa XX FX kacXgldXXaXfXbbimbbbbiecXbbmamkfccgbcfladcnXdbcbbbnkefaXaXbbXbmabibdXXbabmihbbbaeibXajbXbXfXbXaXaXabXXackcbXfoblfagkhXkldXkcaXilefkkagbbkXbkkgXkfhXbalhfcbckaXehbcdpmdffXmXabbib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,5,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,216,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0011010111 1101110101 1100010001 1001110101 0011000001 1001110101 01111100101 1101100101 11010101001 1001011101 1111010101 1100011101 1101011101 1101000101 1111010001 1101100101 10001101101 1111001101 1111010101 1001011111 1101011101 1111111101 1001010001 11010111001 1101110101 1011010101 10001010101 1101111100 1111110101 1101111101 1111101101 1111010111 1101010001 1101010111 1111000100 0101010101 01001101101 10110101001 11111101 11111101 11011101 11010101 11010101 10110011 11111101 11010001 11111111 01011101 11010111 1111001 11111101 11111100 1101111101 1111011111 1111110101 1111001111 1101000111 1011010011 11010010101 11001111 11010101101 1001010101 1110010101 1101011111 11010011101 1111010111 1111011101 11001110101 1111010101 11010110101 1001011101 11010101110 1000101101 11010110101 10011111 1011011101 11111010101 1101110111 1101111101 1100110001 1101110101 1111010111 11100111011 1111011111 1101011101 1111010101 1111011101 1101010101 1111111101 1111101101 1101011101 11010100101 11010001101 1101101101 1101011111 110111111 1101110101 1001010101 1001010111 1111011101 1111011101 11111111001 11110101001 1011110111 1111010001 110100110111 1001110111 11100111010 101111001001 1101011101 110101001011 1101110111 1110111101 1111110101 1011010101 1101110101 1011010101 1011010101 1001110101 1101010001 1111110000 11110101010 1101000101 1101111101 1101011101 1111010111 1101011101 1101100011 1101010101 1101110001 1001111111 1011010111 1011111101 1010011111 10101111101 1001010101 1111111101 1111011101 1011110101 11010101010 1101110101 11010101110 1111010111 1001111000 1101000101 1000101101 1011110101 1101011101 11110111111 1101110111 1111010101 1101010001 11110111000 1101110111 11011101111 0101111101 1111011100 1110011010 1101110101 1001010011 1111011111 1110111001 1111011011 1101011111 1101011111 1111111101 11010010111 1111111110 11111101001 10010111010 0111000111 1011110101 1101110001 110111011110 1111011111 1101110111 1100101111 1111010111 1111011101 1101011101 1101110111 1111011111 1011010111 1111011011 1111110101 110101101 1111111101 1111011101 1101110101 11010101110 1011110101 1101110001 1111010111 1111110111 1111011101 1111111101 1111110101 1101111101 111 0101110101 1101110001 10111100111 1100111101 1101010111 1101010101 1111110101 1101000101 0011010101 0111010101 1101010111 1100101111 1101010111 0101010101 1011011101 11110100001 1111110101 11010111 110011111001 1011010101 1111010110 1111010100 1101110111 1111011110 1101111101 1001010111 1011110101 1011011101 1001111111 1101010101 1101011111 1111111111 1101010001 11100101110 111111011 1111011111 1101111111 1110010111 1011010101 1111011101 1011010101 1111111101 1101110111 1111111111 1111010111 111111011 1111111111 1101110011 1111010101 1101010011 1101010111 1011110011 1011110111 11100110110 101111101 11111100101 1111111101 1011111101 1111110111 11001101111 1101011101 1111010101 1111111101 1111110111 1111010100 10011110101 1011011011 1101010001 1111110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 278
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, of, her, 'by, she, ', me, kate, my, thee are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'and, 'of, 'by, 'her are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', breast are repeated).

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  • summary of Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Part Iv.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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