This is an analysis of the poem Mary Garvin that begins with:

FROM the heart of Waumbek Methna, from the
lake that never fails,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXbcdc bbebfXgh ieeedgig Xhjh jkbk lbldmnm gbdb dcXc koho dgXg kpcp fldX cgjg ahdh hdad gXaX Xnin qXlX kdX klnl ckdX gmjm cgg cdbd jegX jrjX pbjb alXX Xnb qLiX XehX bdld dmaX hLbl jhlX ancn jgag nhlX Xqbq ndbd riXX mdhd bXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,4,4,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010101000 11101 10100011010 1000 10111010010 111 11101110110 001 11010101010 111 11010111010 001 11011101110 100 11010111010 001 01010101010 1011 110011101011 101 100100101110 111 01100100110 01 11010101010 101 01111101101 101 10011101011 101 0101010101011 1 1111010110101 11110111010 101 1101010010101 01 1111010111011 1 0101110011 101 1010101111 10101 1101011111 101 10101001101010 1 101010101010 111 11111110101 0101 11111110101 1101 1010001001110 0101 1011101010 10101 10111010111 101 01010101010 001 1010011101111 10 11100010111 0101 00111010110 101 11110100 11101 1110111011 1001011 101001010011 001 101100101110 101 11111111101 0101 10101010110 1010 011000110100 101 00111110110 111 110101010101 11 111111111 11101 1101010101010 1 110010101110101 111101111010 1 111101100101 01 11011000111 11 1111011111 1111 11110110111 1101 11011111010 011 110111111 10101 10100010110001 1110111011 10101 10101110101 0101 1011101000 110000 101010010111 1110 101011101110 1 11101010101110 10 101011010110 111 11011100011 101 10011101110 101 110101010100 111 101010101010100 10101110101 0111 1110101011101 01 01010100010 10 101110101110 101 010101111101 010 1011101110 100111 110011100111 101 10101111011 111 1111101110 11101 01110111101 01 111111011 0101 1110111011 11101 1101101011001 01 1011101010 11101 010111110 10101 001010101010 111 111010101110 101 10111010101 0101 10111010001 1101 0010101010 10101 111011101 10011 1011101011 10001 111110111 10001 1010111011 1111 1010111001 101010 101010100110 1 101010010001010 1 1010111010 10111 101110110010 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 44
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 185
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; with, of, and, ', her, he, me, be are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, o are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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