This is an analysis of the poem The Deer Lay Down Their Bones that begins with:
I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain
Above the deep river-canyon. There was a little cataract crossed the path, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeeXcfghiXjb XgbahhgXiegdaXaifbaajXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101111010 0101101011010100101 1001 101111100100111100 10 100101011111001011 101011 110111001011110 11011101001011010 110101110110110001 111101 101111011011010110 111110 110101011010110111 1010101 110101110111 11010101111000111 111001 11010100110101001111 010111000111011011 001 0011110110011011001 101 1111110101111010 110110100 110111011111001 1110111 111011111011110110 1101 001001111011001011 1110110 01111111110110110 1010111 01111101011110101 111011111111011010 1101 110110001011100 101001101011001111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2103
- Average number of words per stanza: 385
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bones, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
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