This is an analysis of the poem The Red Canoe that begins with:
De win' is sleepin' in de pine, but O! de
night is black!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcXad aeXeXXfd XXXbXXfd cXXgdgd XbbXgdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001110 101 111101111110 10 110101011101 11 11010110110 101 11010111111 101 1101110111 11101 11011101010 101 11100111011 01 0110111010110 10 01011011101 1101 110101111110 11 11111111011 01 01011101010111 110111011100 1000 1110110011 10111 11010101111 0101 11101110111 0101 1101111111 1000 1101110111011 1 11010101011 01
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, i, dip are repeated.
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