This is an analysis of the poem Musings On The North West that begins with:
Domestic cattle quiet will graze where now the Buffalos roam,
and in spots now covered o'er with Indian Wigwams,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbbXXc aXddccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010011101011 10111010010010 1111011001011 101011101010 101010001111 100011001000010 11001101001100 1010001001111 101101 1110001111101 100010011010 011101001101 01001001101 00111010101 0001111101 011110100010 11100100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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