This is an analysis of the poem On Journeys Through The States that begins with:
ON journeys through the States we start,
(Ay, through the world--urged by these songs,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb cdX cdeeXXbXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11011111 10110100101001 1101001100111001 111010010011101 1111110111011110 1011011 110101001011 111100011011000 101010101 101110101001 11100011011110011 110010101101010010 101 10111101001001010 111101101101001 1101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- 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; of, all, we, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines states is repeated).
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