This is an analysis of the poem The Spell Of The Yukon that begins with:
I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac adadaeae eaeafgfg hihifjfj kXkclcXc didimama lnlnococ pepeanXnXfgfgklkl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011110 110110101 1010110110 11110001 110011110 11001011 111111110 11101001 11011110 001001111 0011010110 001101001 1111101110 11001101 101111110 11111101 110111010 11111111 110111010 11111101 011111010 01101001 010010010 01000001 110110110 11101001 110110110 01011111 1011010110 101101111 1111110110 001101111 010110110 01101110 010100010 01101101 011110110 01101011 010010010 11101101 010010111 01111101 011110111 01011011 0111101100 01101111 0100110100 11001111 1011010110 101011111 1111110110 11111101 1110111110 111010011 1011010110 111011110 110110010 01001001 111010010 11001101 111110111 01110101 1010101010 11101111 111010110 01011101 1000011010 11111001 0011111110 001011011 0010111010 001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; i, it, some, you, and, that, it's, gold are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, some, you, it, and, the, there, i'll, it's are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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