This is an analysis of the poem The Cure Of Calumette that begins with:

Dere's no voyageur on de reever never
run hees canoe d'ecorce... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcaXdX aXeXfgXg bXXXbXhf icXcXbcX ijXXXXek eilXXbcb kckcigag aXiX XkXk kikihcgX blXlhhXh XimiXjXX Xgegibkb akmkjigi bXXmagXg XjXjhkmk elXljXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100101010 110110 101101001010 110111 101101101010 111110 11110010010 100 1100110101110 01100 11011110011 1101011 1010110010101 11101 11001001011 111011 1101101110 1100100 101011110 101011100 111101001011 110101 101111101011 011111 11011001111 01011 0110101101 1111111 11001011101 11111 10101110110 10111000 1111111111111 110101 10111101010 1110 11110100101 0111111 11000111111 101101 1111100111 1001101 0111110011 1111101 10111011011 10111 1111111110 1101101 1011111111 11111 11101001011 011011 111011101100 111 01111101010 111101 1111011010 110101100 0111100101111 1001 1111111101 1101101 11011111 100101 111111110101 11101 11010101011 101011 110111110110 01001 1110110101 11011 11011101001 011101 1101111101 1001101 111001101001 101101 11110110111 1011001 1010110111 10101 1101101111 10101 10101101010 0101 101101010101 10110 001001101001 11 011011101101 101 101010011110 101 111011101000 0101 10101101110 0101 1111110011 1101101 11111111011 10111 11011001101 1111001 101011111110 1101 110110110101 1101 101101110110 1111 01111101001 111101 01011001011 11011 11011011101 111101 1100101101011 0111 1101101110 101101 11110111001 101101 1111001101 111111 1110111011111 0111 11110010010 100
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; de, of, he, an' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.

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  • summary of The Cure Of Calumette;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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