This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint Of A Forsaken Indian Woman that begins with:

Before I see another day,
Oh let my body die away!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbbbcbcAA ddaaceceaa ddffegegaa eehhdadaii iiaajijiaa ggddkikiaaXddggaaaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110101 11110101 01110101 01100111 01010101 11110101 11110111 111101 01110101 11110101 110010111 10011101 11010101 11111101 11111101 111111110 11011111 110111010 11010011 01110101 01111111 01010101 11110001 10110011 110111010 11110011 110001010 11101101 11101111 11110101 111110010 010111110 10111111 11110011 10110101 01110011 10110001 11110111 11110111 11010101 11011101 01111111 11111111 11111101 1111011110 01111101 111101010 11010101 11111101 11110101 11010101 11010011 01011101 11011101 110011101 01010101 01110101 111100111 01010111 110011101 11111101 11110101 11011101 01110111 11010101 11111101 01011111 11111100 11111101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, for, and, no, he, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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