This is an analysis of the poem The Law Of The Yukon that begins with:
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:
"Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane --...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddCcAa eeffaaXdddcc ggccbbXfaahhXXddii ffggjjXdXcaaeehhcC ddeeiihhhXXiiAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,18,18,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 000100111101101 1011101101111111 110110101111001 111110101111001 110100101101001 100011101000101 11010110111101 00110110001111 001101100011011 10100110101101011 100111001011011 11110101101111101 10111110111011 011011110110100101 1011010101101 1111010101101101 010100110100001 111110011111111 11110101001011 11110101011011 101101101011111 100111101001011 101100101001011 100101101001001 1000110111001101 10100111011101 100100101011011 1101011011111001 100110101001001 100100101001001 101101011001110 100110101001001 110100101100101 1001010101101 10011010100101 1101010110011 001101001000100110 010011001000110 1001001011011001 001011001000101111 11110110110011001 1011011011011101 1001001011001111011 100100101011011 101100101011111 100101101011101 100101101001011 001101101110101 1101110110111 10010101011011 1111010110110 101001001001101 1001101111001001 1011101000101011 1111110111011 1111011011110101001 11010111010111 11100101010101001 1001110010011101 001101100011011 10011011011011001 00100101001101001 100100101001001 111111101111101 10010110100111 11101111111111100001 1001101101010010 010101100100101 010100100110101 111010110001010010 000100111100111 110011101100101 100111001011011 00000011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 790
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; for, your, and, send, in, my, i, one, them, by, through, of, its, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words them, one, and, of are repeated.
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