This is an analysis of the poem From Far Dakota's Canons that begins with:
FROM far Dakota's cañons,
Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc deXcXd bXfXceXXfgX XaXcebgcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,11,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 100101010101010 10 10010101100101110 010100 0100100010100100 0100100100010101010 001011010011010 110 0101011010011 010101110011 0100101111 0101010001 110101111101 110011 11010111100111 11 01010101110101 0111010101 01010101010 110101 10010101010 110010011101001100 110111 11010101010011 11111011110101010 1001100100111001100 10110100110101011010 1001101001010 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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