This is an analysis of the poem The Feet Of The Young Men that begins with:
Now the Four-way Lodge is opened, now the Hunting Winds are loose --
Now the Smokes of Spring go up to clear the brain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabXbc XXXX dedebebe X c fgfXhdhd X X egeXidiD X X gdgdhdhD X X ejejcdXd X hhhXakaak iaiiia XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,1,1,8,1,1,8,1,1,8,1,1,8,1,9,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101010111 101001110101 101111101010001 10111110001 1110101011101110 11101010111 1110101010100010 10111010101 1111101010 110101011100 1011010111010111101 1011111 111011101011101 11101011101 111011101011101 11101110001 1111111111101110 10101010001 1110001010111110 101010101101 1011110 1 111010101111101 00111011101 101011101011111 00101011101 1011111001111110 001010100111 0010111100111110 10111111111 1011110 1 111010101011111 10111010101 111010101010011 10111010100 0011111001101010 11101110111 1110101011111110 10111111111 111110 1 111011101010101 11101011101 111010100010101 101001110111 0011111001101110 00101010111 0110101001111010 10111111111 111110 1 111011111111101 101001010111 111011101011101 10101010101 0011111010101011 00101010111 1111101010101010 10111111111 111110 101110101010101 10111111111 101111101111101 11111010101 111011101110011 10101110011 101011101010111 101000111011101 10101110101 1110111010101010 10101011101 1011101010101010 1010101010111010 1011101111101110 10111110001 1111101010 110101011100 1001010111010111101 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; now, who, hath, i, go, you, one, for, and, of, sail, know, my, to, them, or, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, who, i, and, to, do, where are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word i 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 i connects the lines.
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