This is an analysis of the poem The Adirondacs that begins with:

A JOURNAL.
DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW-TRAVELLERS IN AUGUST, 1858.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX bcbX deffgg XheXicdjcgekglmejnd gnogghcgepk dXqclrk dXdkeo jgbnddgXdoelgddkjgmsddi eXhccoddamdcjojdXt cordecjqooiedrdm dtlojcdcgdhkdjdhjj htjaXhgXg mcXroeadeXgedgkmdXqc iljgdhgjcgndj qXdjXdaglXnc dtgjeroguir jsidljedbjhdijdjegklgjl gcclrjdXqeecjcaouei
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,6,19,11,7,6,23,18,16,18,9,20,13,12,11,23,19,32,40,43,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010 100001101000101 11011011 110010111 10111101 11001000 11010100011 1011011101 001010101 0100011101 1111110111 1111110011 1111010100 0101010011 11010101011 1001010110 1101001111 1011010111 01010100101 1111010101 1111010001 1011010101 1101111101 111101010010 1101010111 1011110111 1101010011 11010011001 1011010011 11010010111 0101010101 100101011 1011010101 100010101001 0111011101 10101110001 0111011101 1001100101 1011110101 1111011111 1011010001 11011100110 01110001001 1101010111 1011010100 1100111111 1101101110111 1101101101 01010101010 10001110101 10110101101 1011111101 110010111010 01010011111 1010010101 1101001111 0111010001 1111111111 1101000101 1101010101 1101000101 1101011101 100101001100 1101011111 1001110011 1101001101 10010110011 1111010101 1011000101 1101111001 1111000100 11001110111 1011111111 0111001111 0101011101 1011000101 1111011011 1001011001 010001 11110111000 1101110101 0110111001 1101011111 0100011111 1001010101 1111010011 1101110011 0101010101 0101011011 1101110101 1001111101 1101111001 1101101100 0101000101 110011101100 1111010101 1010110100 1101111101 1101011101 1001010101 1101000100 1101110 0111000101 1111100100 11110100101 0111110101 0101010101 0101110101 110101001110 1011010011 110011111001 0111010101 1111010 11110111001 1011010101 1010111101 1100110101 1101000111 1001011111 11000010001 1001010101 0100010001 1101010101 0011010110 1001000101 0011011011 10110101001 01011011101 11010101001 1101010011 0111110101 1101101101 0111110111 01010101010 1101011000 01010001001 1100000111 110100110 1111 110001 0100111011 1001010101 1111011011 1001010101 1011110101 0111010101 1101010101 11001010011 10110111110 1010001101 1011010111 11001000101 0101010101 010101100110 11010101001 11011010001 0101011100 1101110100 000101 1001 1011111101 10110111101 0100011101 10010000101 1101000101 1101110011 1111010111 11111000101 01001110111 1111110101 1111110011 0101011101 1111110100 0101110010 1011110011 1101011101 1101001000 11001110101 11011101010 01010001001 1101010101 1110010101 1111010001 1101011111 1101110101 1101011101 10011010111 1111010101 11010010101 0101011101 11011011101 1001010100101 10100101010 1100001101 1001011101 1111000101 1011010011 1101110001 1111110100 0111010111 0101001111 0001010101 1100010101 1011110101 11010101101 1011010101 0101100101 0100010101 1111010001 1111001111 1101100100 1101110011 0100110101 101100111010 1001010101 1101111101 1001110101 1001110101 1100010111 1101110011 0111110101 1101011101 0101010111 1011010101 1101101000 11110101000 10010101010 0100010101 1111011101 010001110101 01010011001 1001010101 01010010011 01110010101 0111010101 1101111001 10010000101 0001010101 1011011101 100110110101 0111010001 1011010011 1101010101 1001010100 1011110001 1101110111 00101010101 1101111110 0101010101 0101100101 1011001111 1100111101 1101000101 1111010001 10001010100 1110000101 1111000101 0101110111 1101001101 0101101101 0101001011 1101111111 0101010011 1011010001 0100111111 101100110100 01011111001 1101111100 10111011111 0101010100 0111011100 1001010001 0001110101 0101110011 1101110111 1101000101 1001011100 11010010011 11111000101 0111010001 0111010001 11011101001 1001110100 1101010101 1001010111 1101110001 1110010111 1101010101 1101010100 01011100101 01010000101 0101000100 1101010011 1111100111 1101011001 010100100 110111001 01010101010 1011001100 0011011100 1100110101 1101011101 1101110100 1111110101 11111101 1101111101 1100011101 1011110101 0111111101 1101010111 010100111100 11011111010 1101110101 1011011111 0111110100 1101011010 1111100111 1101100111 01010011101 01010010011 0011011001 1001010101 11011110111 01010101010 1011001101 011101011 0111000101 1101100001 1001010100 0111010001 10111010001 10001010101 0101011101 01111010101 1101110001 1011111101 11010001010 0101010111 1101010101 0011010101 10010101001 1101101101 1001000101 1111110101 01001111111 01001110101 01010010001 1100010011 0101010001 1101010101 1011000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 678
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 352
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; through, and, leaved, no, or, at, to, in, so, we, what, of, jove, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, 'welcome, no, the, to, or, so, this are repeated.

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