This is an analysis of the poem The Long Trail that begins with:
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,
And the ricks stand grey to the sun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXabcBdefe bghgdefe aifidefe Xahadefe XXgXdXfe aaiadefe gjXjdefe jhchdefe gefeabcBXdefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101011011101 10111001 10100111010111010 1011010100 1110100111 10100111 111011111 1110101 110010111 110101 10101011111011 111110110110111 0111100111 1100111 111010010101 1100101 101011011 1010111 101111011111011 111110110110111 0111111011111 1011111 11111011010111 001011 0011100111 1010101 101111011111011 001110110110111 10101010010101 101001001 10101010010101 00100111 1110110111 10100101 111011011111011 1111110110110111 10101010010101 1010111 10101111010101 10111101 0101111011 01001010 10101101011111011 110110110110111 10101001011111 1010111 11111110010101 00100101 011010111 0010101 101111011111011 1011110110110111 101010110100101 110111 101011101010101 1011101 0111010111 10111001 111011011111011 110110110110111 111011010101 1010111 10101111011111 1010111 101111111 1100101 11111011111011 111110110110111 11011100100001 110111 10101010110101 1010101 1110100111 10100111 111011111 1110101 011111111 1011111 111111011111011 111110110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; trail, out, to, or, and, her, of, on, it's, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, as, it's, they're are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word new at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Long Trail;
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- idea of the verse;
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