This is an analysis of the poem Reedy River that begins with:
Ten miles down Reedy River
A pool of water lies, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbbcbdb bbebfgXg bebechbh AeheijkJ akfkadbd ijdJXcec alalabib Xgdgemem
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 010101 1101010 010001 1011110 011101 0101110 1010101 0101010 110101 1101110 110111 1101110 010111 1101010 110111 0101010 011101 1101010 011101 1101010 010111 0111010 011101 11011010 111101 1101010 011101 1111010 111101 1101011 1010101 1101010 111101 10111010 010101 11101110 111111 0111010 110111 11001010 11100101 1101011 1010101 1101110 110111 1111110 1111101 1111010 010111 10101110 010001 1101110 111111 10101010 010101 1001110 111101 1101110 010001 1111110 1010101 10101010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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