This is an analysis of the poem The Missionary - Canto Eighth that begins with:
The morn returns, and, reddening, seems to shed
One ray of glory on the patriot-dead.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,4,4,4,221,1,10,1,74,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011100101 11010101001 1011010101 1111010111 1101100001 0101100101 1011010001 1101011101 1101010101 01001010101 01001111101 1101010111 101001 11110001101 01011110001 101001011010 101011011101 111010010110 110110001011 101110001001 101011011011 101001011101 011011001111 11001001001 111101111001 1001010101 11110101001 1011111101 1101011101 01001110101 1101111001 1011010101 1110010101 1101011101 0101011001 1111111111 01001011101 1011000111 1111010111 1001011111 1101011101 0101010101 1101011000 1111010101 1101100101 1101010101 0101000111 1101011001 1101011001 0110110101 1001011101 10010010101 1101100101 0101010101 1101110101 1101011101 0111110111 11010101001 1101010101 1011001111 1001010101 1101110101 11010101001 1111110001 1100010101 1001010101 1001111101 1111011111 01001101001 1101011101 1100010011 110101011 1101010101 1001111111 1001010101 1101111001 1111111000 1101001101 11010101001 0101010101 110101101 1100010101 1011010111 1100011101 01011100100 01010100101 11011001001 1101110111 0010010101 1111011111 01010110101 1111110001 1101111101 1111001111 11011011001 010101101 1111011101 1101010101 1101011111 0101110101 0101010101 11010010101 1110010101 1101010111 0101101111 0110011111 01110101001 0101010101 1111011101 1011110101 1111010101 1111111111 01001110101 1110010101 0111011111 1001010101 11010001111 1101001101 0101010111 01010001001 0001011101 11011100101 1101010111 0101010011 0101010001 1111110101 1111011101 1111100101 1110011101 1101001101 0101111101 1101011111 1111110111 0011000101 1101111111 0101011101 1001011101 1101010101 1000111101 0011010101 100111111 1111001101 0101011101 1100110101 1101010101 1101110101 0101011101 0101010101 11101100101 1101001111 10010 10101 1111101101 1101110101 0111110101 1000010101 1110010101 111011101 01000101001 1101011101 1110010111 1111010011 00110010001 1101010101 1101010101 1011010101 0101110101 01001111101 110111001 0101110101 0111010111 1111010101 1101011111 11001011001 1110010101 0101100101 1110110001 1001011101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 0011101001 01110011001 1101110101 01110010101 1100010101 1001010101 01100100101 11001010111 11011101001 0100001101 1001010111 100110011101 1111000101 1101010001 0101110101 01110010101 1101100101 11010101001 1101111111 1111010101 1100111111 1011110101 11011111001 0111010101 11110001001 0101010101 1101010101 10010110101 0101011101 0101100101 1100010101 1101111111 1111010111 0111111101 11111101001 0110011101 0111010101 1001110101 1001010101 1111001111 0101010101 1101010011 10110010101 1101010111 0111110101 0111011101 1101000101 1001011111 1011010101 1101010101 0111011101 1101111101 11010011101 111111111101 01010101001 01011100101 1101010101 1111001001 01010101010 01110001010 110010100101 1010011111 1110010101 1101100101 110100 100 111110 1111010101 1011011111 0111000101 1101010011 0011010101 1011011101 1001110111 1101111111 1101010111 100 1101111001 0011011101 011100111001 0101010101 10011101001 1101110101 0101111101 11111101001 1110011101 1111010001 11110100111 1101010101 01010110101 1001010101 0101010101 0110010101 0101011111 01110010101 0111010101 0101101101 10101000111 1011010011 1111011101 1011010101 1011011101 0101110111 1111010101 1101010101 1101011111 1011011101 1111010101 1111010101 0101110111 1010011101 1001010101 1100010101 110101101 1111010101 0101011101 0111010101 010111100 1101111111 1001011101 1011000111 0101100101 1101110101 01001110101 11010110101 1101001101 01001010101 0101111101 1001010100 1101110101 1100010101 0101010101 1111110111 1001011101 1101111101 1111101111 100110101001 1101010101 1111110101 1101110011 10011010011 0111110111 11111101001 1101111101 0101010001 1001010101 0101011101 1111010101 11010100101 01110100101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1457
- Average number of words per stanza: 260
- Amount of lines: 332
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, live, his, this, me, in, her, i, with, thou, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, live, save are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines indian is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word indian at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase indian connects the lines.
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