This is an analysis of the poem Voyages that begins with:

Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart --
I walk by sedge and brown river rot ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcdeXbeeeaafabbXgXXhiahjgcbaXacgdjakkcebcejfcgcXXjaceakfeiee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 63,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 111111101 0101111101 1011101110 0010110010 11011111 1110100110 1111111010 110101010010 111010111 00101010001 110010111 11110100011 111101111 101010101 111001001 010100101010 111110101 1011101011 111101011 101010110 011011110 1010101100 111001011 001110111 110101010 101110111 1101010011 00111011 1100100101 1111110101 1101011011 110110101 1011111010 0010111011 101110101 101110001 110101111 101011011 010011011 11100010 101010111 011101101 111001010 010101011101 01111011 11100111011 111111011 110111101 0010110100 111010100 010001001 101000100 110010101 01011100100 11101011 110101 10010111 010011111 11100111 100101 00010111 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2443
  • Average number of words per stanza: 453
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; for, and, how, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines how is repeated).

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