This is an analysis of the poem Italian Music In Dakota that begins with:

THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all,
Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaddecfXXXe fbgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011001 111101010101 01010101101 010101001010 11010101100101 100110110010110101 100101011001000010 1 1101001110111 10001001101010 11010101001 10010101011 10010100010 110100011 100100101100 010001110101 111111010111011 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; here is repeated.

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