This is an analysis of the poem The Seer that begins with:
In the dingy dust of his deerskin tent sat the chief of a dying race,
And the lake that lapt at his wigwam door threw back a frowning face,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd cccc cceX ccff aaee ggee hhee gggg iidd ggXXXaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 001010011110100101 1011110101110101 101011010110100101 101011101110101 010111010011001 10110010101111 11100101000101101 01110101110101 10110010111101 1001110111111 11111101111101 11110101110101 1011010100111 11010110110101 11011101010101 11110101110110 0101110010111 1111010100101 01110111011101 11001101110001 1110001010101001 01011101110111 01100101010101 01010111010111 1101001010100101 11110101010111 01100101010001 1111110010101 1010010101110101 11011101010101 11111101010001 11010101100101 010111110101111 01111101010101 01110101110011 11011100110111 1101010101101 10111101010001 1111110100101 11011010010111 11101010110101 11110101100101 11111110101111 11011101101101 001010011110100101 101010100110101 10111001011111101 111101000101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; and, of, with, my, in, ye, mix, your, water are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, behold are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Seer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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