This is an analysis of the poem Lost In The Prairie that begins with:
In one of fhe States of America, some years ago,
There suddenly came on a violent storm of snow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eefg aagg aafX hhii jjfX fXbX eeeeXgffg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001001001 1100110100101 1110010010010 111011111100 0101101010011 10011011111 1111111110011 1010100010111 0111011011101 111011101011 10111111101 11010110110110 11100101011001 1110111110101 11110110110 11111010100100 111010101 010100101001 111101110111 111111010100 1111100001 10010011001001 111101011 10110101011 1011111110111 1101100111011 11111101 111111000 11111111101 11100101100 100101101001 1011011011100 1111101001 1111110101 11000101 1101111100111 11110011110 1110111011101 111010100011 01110010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their, they, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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