This is an analysis of the poem The Man From Athabaska that begins with:
Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming
Of a wood-pecker a-rapping on the hollow of a tree;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaa cdcdd bebee fXfXe caXXa XaXaa babaa gdgdd bhbhh bebee XecXe ididfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101111101010 001100101010001 1111111011101010 001000101110101 11010111110101 1010011111101010 111010101110001 1011101111101010 111010101110011 101000101010101 110111110101010 10111110001111101 1011101010101010 111110100010101 101110101110101 10101011011101010 1110101011101110 1011010101110111110 111101011111010 111111101101101 1110101011111010 001000110010101 1010111111010010 111110101010110 11010101010101 101101010100011 1111110001101101 0110101011111010 11011101010101 111010010010011 1111101111100110 001000100010101 1011101010100110 111110101110110 1010011101110101 1110001000101010 01010100111001 1110001000111010 111110101110111 101011101010101 1110111010111110 11011100010111 110101011101010 111001101011101 111110101111111 1110111010100110 1010101001110101 11101110101001010 111001101010001 101110100110101 1110101011111000 111010101110011 11101010101101110 01011101010100 111110101110101 1111101011101010 111010101010101 1010101011001010 101010101110101 1011101010101010 111010001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; of, 'twas, and, i, they, me, seven, i'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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