This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The American Indian that begins with:
Stranger, stay, nor wish to climb
The heights of yonder hills sublime;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggffhheeddiijjkkggll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 01010101 11111101 110100101 010000101 01111001 1010101 1010101 11011101 11100101 01010111 01011101 11111111 10111101 1010011 1110101 11011101 10010101 0111101 01010011 11011101 10011101 1010101 1010101 1010101 100010101 1011101 11011101 01110001 10111001 01001001 0011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1131
- Average number of words per stanza: 195
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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