This is an analysis of the poem Heart O' The North that begins with:

And when I come to the dim trail-end,
I who have been Life's rover,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fbfb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 111100111 1110110 00111111 10110110 010110101 01001011 11011111 00101011 11110111 1011111 11110101 00101011 11011101 1110110 11111100 01001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, over, i are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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