This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Chattahoochee that begins with:

Out of the hills of Habersham,
Down the valleys of Hall,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababccbXa XaXacXXcXX XacacbbcXX XababddbXa XababbbbXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010100 101001 110100101 10101101 1101101001 011111011 1101011001 0010100101 10010100 1001001 11010100 1101001 010101100 010100111 01010111 0110100111 0110110101 1010110101 10010100 1001001 110010100 1001001 010011101 11010101 110100101 0110101101 100001001011 111111101 110010100 11001001 110010100 11001001 011110111 0110100101 1100100101 10110101 10101100 110010101 0010010100 001001001 111010100 11101001 01111101001 100100101 1001101001 0111101101 10100101001 1010100101 110010100 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words far, all, the, here, and, in, downward, calls are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same words ', hall at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • idea of the verse;
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