This is an analysis of the poem A Prairie Heroine that begins with:
They were running out the try-lines, they were staking out the grade;
Through the hills they had to measure, through the sloughs they had to wade;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff fXggee hhaaii jjjjgg jjhhkk kkddcc aaXbjj hhccee aaccee cceehh cciikk hhaaaX jjaagg aallXXXeeddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010111010101 101110101011101 101001101010101 001010101010111 101011100011101 111010101010101 1010010101010111 11000101011101 101010111100101 101011101110111 101010101010111 001010101011101 101110111110101 1111101001101010 11010101110101 110100100010101 11111101111101 11000101111101 010101011110101 11011101011101 10111110010101 11010101101101 001000111111111 11110100001101 11010101110111 11110101101101 01010111011111 101110100011001 11111101110101 11101111010111 11111110111111 01000101100001 11010101101111 01011111110101 11111101110001 11111111010111 11010101011101 101010100111101 11010100011101 11010001111101 11010101111101 111010111010111 11110101010111 1111110111011101 111101001010100 11010101110001 1110111101111011 1001101110111 111011111010101 101010101011111 101011101111111 101101111011101 111011101111111 111111101110101 01001111011101 11000101010101 11011111110111 11000101111101 11110001110101 11001101110111 11111111100101 11110001110101 11111001110111 11111111111101 111010101111111 11010101110101 1111110111101 11000101110001 11000111010110101 111011101010001 11010111110111 11010101011111 11110111110101 110110101111111 10100111010001 11011011000101 11110101000111 111110101011101 101110111110101 101111101011111 1100010110101 1101010110111 11000100111101 1101010110101 110101011111101 11010101011101 11011111111101 01010100011101 11110101111111 11100010110101 010001010111001 101010100010001 111110100011001 101010100010101 11001110100001 001110100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, to, you, of, i, her, she, day, me, men, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, but, she, and, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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