This is an analysis of the poem Salmon-Fishing that begins with:
The days shorten, the south blows wide for showers now,
The south wind shouts to the rivers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXbacXdXbaXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001111101 01110010 010101110110 1100010 010101010110 0011011 110011011010 10010010 101001011100 1101010 01100000110 001011011 101011100101 1110011 11011101010 0101010110110 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 691
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Salmon-Fishing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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