This is an analysis of the poem The Prairie-Grass Dividing that begins with:
THE prairie-grass dividing--its special odor breathing,
I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXaXcbXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01010100101010 10100010001010 010110011010101 01010101110 100101011111010 11111101100101 01101100 1001010100101110 1101 111100001001011100 101111 10111010100110 0100 101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 751
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; demand, of, those, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words demand, those are repeated.
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