This is an analysis of the poem Night On The Prairies that begins with:
NIGHT on the prairies;
The supper is over--the fire on the ground burns low;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdX ca Xef dXXX XeXggXbXXfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,3,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 01001001010111 010100110110 11111111110111111 1010101 11011010011 1011111010 11011000110 0111110111010101 10 1110011101111011 0100 1110010111111100 0111001011 1101101101001110 101110 1110010101011101 11001 1100011111011001 111110101101111 1010010111111100 01 1111111001010110110 11111011100010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; i, how, same, of, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines earth is repeated).
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