This is an analysis of the poem An Oregon Message that begins with:
When we first moved here, pulled
the trees in around us, curled ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdXb daXXeX baefdc Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 0100111 1100111 11010111 111110101 110101001 011010101 111001110101 011111 0100101001001 1010101001 1001001001 0011010101 1101000101010 01011010 01100010 1001101 11011110 1110010 10110 10
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines one is repeated).
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