This is an analysis of the poem The Brook that begins with:
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dEDE cXcc fXfX dEDE fgfg XhXh dEDE icic iciX cXccXdEDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 1101010 11010101 0101010 11011101 1101010 110100101 1101010 11110111 0101010 11111111 1111110 11010101 0101110 11000101 1101010 010011111 11001111 1100101001 0111110 11010111 0101010 11111111 1111110 11011011 0101010 11110101 1111010 11110101 0111110 0100100100 0101010 11010111 0101010 11111111 1111110 11111101 1111010 11010111 1111010 11111111 0111010 11010111 0111010 11010111 0101000 11011101 1101110 11011111 0101010 11111111 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, many, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Brook;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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