This is an analysis of the poem The Pathfinders that begins with:
Night, and a bitter sky, and strange birds crying,
The wan trees whisper and the winds make moan, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb ccccc dedee dfdff cgcgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010111110 0111010111 110100111110 0111011111 0101110101 11100111010 01001110111 100100101110 1101011111 1111110101 11010111010 1101010111 110111010010 1111000100 1101110101 11010111010 1111010111 11110100010 0111010001 11010000101 11110101110 11110011001 110111001110 0101010111 010010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1360
- Average number of words per stanza: 214
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, no are repeated.
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