This is an analysis of the poem The Voortrekker that begins with:
The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire,
He shall fulfill God's utmost will unknowing His desire;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011100010111010 110111100100010 111111011100101 11010101011011 11011111110101 010100101011001 01011101110101 11111101101101 110101001001011 11010101010101 11110011110111 11110101010101 11110101010101 110111001100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 880
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, his, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, there are repeated.
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- summary of The Voortrekker;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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