This is an analysis of the poem The Prairie States that begins with:
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100010110101 11010100101011 01010101011001 11010100101111 0100 01110101110101010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; and is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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