This is an analysis of the poem Prairie Born that begins with:
We have heard the night wind howling as we lay alone in bed ;
We have heard the grey goose honking as he journeyed overhead;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc ddeeaacc ffggccee hheeccii ccffhhaa aajjkkii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101110101 111011101110101 111011100010101 1110100101110101 111011101011001 101110101010101 111011100010001 101010101011001 111010101010101 111100100010101 111010101011101 1010101001010001 111010100011001 101010101010001 1010111110110001 101011100011101 111010100010101 11101101011101101 1110111000010101 101010100010111 101011100011101 101010100011101 101000101011101 101110101010101 111010111010111 111010101010101 111010101010101 111011101110101 111010100010101 1111101010110101 111011101010101 101011101110101 111010101111101 111010101010101 111110101010101 111010100010101 111110101111111 111010101010001 111111101110011 111010101110101 111010101110101 1011010101011001 111010100011101 111011101010101 1110011111100110 1110001001101010 101011111110101 101110110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 526
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (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; we, have, of, heard, and, time, for, our, call are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, heard, though are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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