This is an analysis of the poem The Over-Song Of Niagara that begins with:
WHY stand ye, nurslings of Earth, before my gates,
Mouthing aloud my glory and my thrall?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabcdcdeEffffccGeEgg ffhgghccGiigXaBa biifjjfhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,16,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010111 1001110111 1101011001 110110000001 1001000101 01011101010 1111010101 110101010 1111 0111 11101001 11111 11101 1111101 11110 0111110 1101101 11111 0111 111001 1001 11101 1111 11000101 11101 1100 10111011 11110 0111110 1101101 00101 11101 1001 1010 11110010111 1001110111 1101111001 110110000001 11011 11101 1001101 11011 11011 11000111 101101 11011 001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines away is repeated).
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- summary of The Over-Song Of Niagara;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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