This is an analysis of the poem A Providential Escape that begins with:
Providential escape of Ruby and Niel McLeod, children of Angus McLeod,
Ingersoll, little Neil McKay McLeod, a child three years of age, was carried...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbXX bbcc dddX deee bbff ggaa ddhh bbii aaaaXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101011011001001 1001010101011001110 100101110011010110 101010100111011 010011111 01010101 01001101 0110110 1101001001 101011 01010010 110001110 11011101 110101101 10100101 1111101 11110111 11011101 01011111 01110101 11111001 11010101 11111101 10110101 111101001 1011101 100101001 101110101 11110101 11110101 11110101 01010011 01011011 10011101 11111001 11010101 11110101 01110001 1010101 10010010 11110101 11010101 11010111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, mcleod, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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