This is an analysis of the poem The Trail Of Ninety-Eight that begins with:
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools.
Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with the faith of fools....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbX ccXb aadd eeaa bbff X ggff hhaa ffii ffhh iibX jjff ggbX jjff X ccbb cXbb ffff ccee kkjj hXll kkcc XjXk iiff aagg jjbb ddccXbbkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110110111011 11100101000101 10101001001101 110100101001011 100100111001001 100110100001111 101101100111111 10111111100100100 101111101001001 101110101011011 1010101010110100 1100101101101101 100001101101011111 10000110011101001000 110101110111101 10011100100111 0101101111001001 111001011011111 100111101101011 100100101001011 111100100100101 0111001011011101 11111110101001 10010110110101 1 110011101101001 10010111100101 1101111111110101 1001001011001101 11010110111011 0101001111001001 110100101011011 111001000100101 10010011100101 1001110100111 10010101111001 10101100100101 10011010101001101 11110010100111 1111110101111 101101101001111 111101101111111 011010101001101 1100101011011011 11110010100100100 11010110101111 110100100101001 10011011110111 1011101101100111 1001010110101 1010110100101 10101101011011 101001001101101100 11101001001011101 110101101011001 1111111011001011 0100111001001001 1 111111101010101 010110100101101 1001110101111 1110010101111 11110101101011 01001110000100101000 11011001111011001 11011011111001001 011011101001001 011111101011011 101110011111011 1001110110101 010010111011001 10010011100101 1001010111001 1011111101101 10110110101101 10010110101111 1001110111101 1001110101111 111100101101001 11010011110110 011101100101001 1011010101011 01101101001101001 01111011001101001 11101001111101001 11001111111001111 111110101110101100 110100101101001 101101101101010 110100101101001 0100110101101001 110101101011101 1101011010001011 1001001001001101 111100101101011 110101101001011 101100101001101 111110101001011 1100101101011101 111101101111001 100111101000101 10010101101001 1101010101101 11010101001001 0111101010101 110101010101111 1001010101001 10110100101011001 1010010010111001 010011101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; gold, we, from, and, men, never, such, our, of, in, spring, us, that, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gold, men, never, farewell, oh, and, each, we, spring, many are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gold at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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