This is an analysis of the poem Oriska that begins with:
FAR in the west, where still the red man held
His rights unrifled, dwelt an aged chief, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbdaef ghXhijaihekc kdlhkleleX amcamadilanho olcdehipcc hacmaciaahadh ldcqpdajldga fdahkcnahXldaacdiahjp dodib dpdgndr alalaadrkqp pX clckX X alnlrnhaX kpX gnX hnX dda adinfjso noX benoaadbmponXmlnkX nhg dX abaX pX edcda aidlc gpcX lqd kX ndeacdd nlbac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,12,10,13,10,13,12,21,5,7,11,2,5,1,9,3,3,3,3,8,3,18,3,2,4,2,5,5,4,3,2,7,17,3,9,4,8,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110111 011001111 0011010101 1101110101 1001010101 100110011001 01001110101 1101110101 010001 0101 0100010101 1101100101 1011010101 1001110101 11010110011 1101010101 0101010001 11110001001 11010010101 1100110111 1101010 111 1111011111 1101010101 1011010111 1101011101 1111110011 1101001101 100111101 1101110011 1111 0100111 0101000101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 11010100101 0001010111 0101010101 110010100101 0101001001 1101000101 0100010 1110 1101010101 10100011101 10010001101 101110001 1001001101 0101010101 11110010101 0101010101 01111101010 1111010101 0101010101 0101010001 0111111111 0101011101 0111000101 1011010101 1001000101 10110100111 110010111011 1011011101 0110010101 01110 011001 1101111010 11001010100 1011110101 0011000101 1101010101 0100011111 0001000101 1011010101 1001010011 1001011101 0011 111001 11001111001 01110010111 0100010101 0100111101 0011001101 01010111001 1111110011 0101000101 1111110111 0100110101 1101010101 1111110111 1101010111 0101011101 1101010101 0101010001 1110110101 1111011011 0100010101 111111 1111 110111010010 1100111001 0101010001 110101 1111 01010011111 1110010101 01010100101 1111010101 01001000101 010100 0101 1101000111 1101010101 1111011011 11001001101 0111010001 011001111 1001110100 1001010111 01010111101 000111 1111 11111101011 1111111101 1111110111 1111011111 1111010101 11100101011 11111001 111 0101110101 1101001111 1011011101 1001101100 01000111011 1101110101 111111011 1110110 1001 1101111101 1101010 111 0111111101 1001011 1111 0101111101 110101 00101 1101011101 1001 1101101 11111101011 10111010111 1001010101 1001011011 1100110101 1001110111 11010 10101 10010111010 0111010 111 10101100101 1111111101 0101111110 1111000101 1001010101 1101111100 1101110011 11010001001 1101110101 11000101010 1000110101 1011110111 11001111111 111100111001 1101011111 0011010111 00110 011101 0110010101 1101010 111 01001 1011111 10011001101 1101011101 0111100110 1101111101 01011 010111 1101011111 0100111101 1111111011 011101 1111 0111100101 1101111111 0111110101 010001 1111 1101110111 1111111111 111101 0101 1110010011 001101 1011 00110 101101 11010010101 1101110111 0011011101 1011100101 11110111001 0100001 1101 10111010101 1001011101 1101010101 01110101000 1101111101 1011101111 100011101001 11010011001 1101100101 11110100111 0101111101 0101010101 1101011111 11010101110 00110010001 11010011111 1011000101 11001010101 1101 110111 1011001101 01000111001 11001010101 00010101001 1001011101 1101001101 0100100011 110101 1101 10110011001 1001010101 0110101 111001 1111010111 0011010011 0100010101 0101000111 0100110110 0111000101 110111 0111 11010111001 100110001011 1110011111 11010100101 1010100011101 11010101101 1001011101 001101 1111 1101100100 1101010101 11010010111 11110111001 1101011101 110010111110 10110000101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 277
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, to, thy, and, she, no, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, and, who are repeated.
The author used the same word 'was at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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- summary of Oriska;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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