This is an analysis of the poem The Dance At Mcdougall's that begins with:
IN a little log house near the rim of the forest
With its windows of sunlight, its threshold of stone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdXdX XXXXefbfX egXgXhXhX ecXc XafaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010111010010 001001101101 110010010010 11001011001 110110010010 11111001011 111011011010 11101011001 001011010 110011011110 0110111011 101101110110 11101011011 110110110110 01011011001 111111010110 11111000101 1101110 101111110110 01101101001 1011110011000 1011001101 11011001110 101011101101 1111010110100 1010010010101 001011110 11001010110 01101111001 110110110110 110010001001 10110110110 1110111101 101011010010 111101001111 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, at are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mcdougall's at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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