This is an analysis of the poem Across The Pampas that begins with:

Dost thou remember, oh, dost thou remember,
Here as we sit at home and take our rest,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abab XcXc defe fXfa dbgb hfXf dede ijhj hefe hfkj bggX dldl AXhf kbbb ibdb gXbb dkdk dbdb dmim Afif bbhbXakak
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111010 1111111111 11111101010 001 110100110100 1011011101 10010011011 1001 10110111010 1101110111 01101101110 001 110100111010 1111011101 11101001110 1100 11010111110 1001011111 11110111010 101 11010110110 1100010001 01110101100 1011 10111111010 1101110011 01110101110 001 11011111110 1011011111 10011101010 1001 11110101110 1111111101 10010011010 1011 11110111010 1001100101 01000100111 111 11110111010 1011111111 11001110110 10000 11011101010 1001000101 10010101110 101 11010111010 101101010 110100101010 1101 11111111010 1101111101 11110111110 001 11011101110 0111111111 11111101010 001 10111001011 1111000111 01010111110 0101 11011111010 1101010101 11100101110 111 11011100110 0111010111 10010101110 0111 11111100010 1101000101 01010100010 011 11010111010 1011111101 01011111010 001 10110100110 1100010111 11010100010 111 11111101010 0101100101 11111111010 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length 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; and, how are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same words dost, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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