This is an analysis of the poem Nauhaught, The Deacon that begins with:
NAUHAUGHT, the Indian deacon, who of old
Dwelt, poor but blameless, where his narrowing Cape... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdaa ecccaccfdgbhadX ijaajcjiccklemiglcccjfndlohiafkdXdeleogfflcabijiaXnkicXaicnkfeiXkkncjcaecXadaaeaekilmX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,15,86,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010010101 11110101001 1001110101 1001010001 0111000101 0001010001 0111100101 1111100101 1111010001 10110001001 1101000111 1101011111 1111100101 01010110101 0101110111 0011110111 1101011101 1101010101 1111100101 0111010111 1111110011 1001011101 10111111011 0101011101 1101010101 1001010111 0101010101 0011100101 1101010111 1101110101 1111011111 1101000111 0101011101 0110010111 1111110101 0011011001 1011110101 1011000101 0101010101 11010111001 0101011111 0100010101 01010101010 0101011101 1011100101 1111111101 1101111101 0101010101 1011110101 0101010011 0111010101 0111010101 0101010101 10110111011 1101110101 1100100111 0101010101 1101011101 10110101001 10011101001 0101000101 0010010001 1101000101 11001111101 0101000101 1001110101 0101010101 01100101111 0110110001 1010111111 0101111101 1111110001 00110100111 01010100101 00111101010 0111001101 1001110001 0111010111 0101111111 1010110101 111111101 1001010101 0101011101 0011010101 11010111001 111101 1101 1101000101 1101001110 1101100101 1011001001 1111001101 10011010101 0101110101 1011111101 1001111101 1101010101 1001011011 1100011111 11011101001 1101100101 1101101101 1101001101 1001000101 01110101001 1011000101 1100011001 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1568
- Average number of words per stanza: 298
- Amount of lines: 108
- 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, that, he, one, of, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, of 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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