This is an analysis of the poem O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy that begins with:
O TAN-FACED prairie-boy!
Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 0111011100101 1011011100111101 001 111010100111111 10 1111101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; came is repeated.
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