This is an analysis of The Mandan Priest by Edward William Thomson.
THEY call me now the Indian Priest,
Their fathers' fathers did not so,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc dedeefef gegechch eaeaf afa aiaieded acacaXaa dedebdbd dXdajkjk ld lddcdc iiiiiXiX ihihcacaXeaeafifi
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,5,3,8,8,8,8,2,6,8,17,
- Metre: 111101001 11010011 01010111 01110001 11111101 1100100101 11101101 11010001 01111111 01111100 1011101011 11110111 01010111 11010101 11010111 11110001 01010111 10010101 01011111 01111101 11111101 11011101 10110011 01010101 11110101 11010111 11011111 11110101 11010111 11111101 10010011 110101011 01011111 11011011 11111111 01010111 11111101 1101101 11111111 01011111 01010101 01110101 11110001 00010101 1110111 11110101 11010111 11011001 011101101 11010101 10010101 11010111 01011111 010101001 11010111 01011101 10111101 11010111 11011111 11010001 01110101 11010101 11110111 01010001 11110111 0110111 01010111 11000101 11110101 11011101 11011111 11110101 11111101 01110111 11010111 01110101 11111101 111101100 110100001 111100110 11110111 11010101 11111111 11110101 00010101 11111111 01101101 01010101 01011100 01011111 1101100101 110010111 11111101 110010101 11111101 01110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 98
Repeated words/phrases
my, me, i, cannot, and, his
Anaphora
i, that, she, from, and