This is an analysis of the poem Randolph Of Roanoke that begins with:
O Mother Earth! upon thy lap
Thy weary ones receiving,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdeX fXXaXcgc hagaijdj Xakagdid lcicaafa dfcfdafa didigdfd Xafafbfb XXmXmXka ndndofdf daoaeafa ildliaaa habamXXa cjgXdagaXgdgddada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 1101010 110010101 1101010 11001101 1111110 110101001 1111110 11010101 1101010 11010101 0101010 11011000 0111010 11010101 1101010 11010111 1110010 11010101 1101110 11110001 0101111 10111101 1111111 11110001 1101010 010010101 0111010 01010101 0101110 010101001 0101010 1100101010 0101110 110000101 0101010 11010111 0101010 110010101 0101010 11011101 1001010 11110101 1101010 11011101 0101010 11010101 0110110 11011101 0111010 01010101 01001010 11010101 1101010 11010101 11001010 11110101 1111110 01010101 1101010 11011101 11011101 11010101 0111011 11011110 1111100 11010101 1100100 01010101 01001110 110110101 1101010 11011101 01001010 00110000 1111110 11001111 01011010 11000101 0101110 11011101 1110110 11010111 0101110 01010101 0101010 010111001 0101010 11010101 0101110 11000101 1101110 11011101 0111010 01010001 1100010 11100101 01110010 11110101 0101010 10110111 1011100 110101100 1100010 10011101 0101011 10010111 0101010 100111001 0101010 010101101 0101010 11010101 1101010 010111111 1111110 01011111 1111110 11111101 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 120
- 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; thy, and, of, his, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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