This is an analysis of the poem The River Of Rivers In Connecticut that begins with:
There is a great river this side of Stygia
Before one comes to the first black cataracts...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab XXa Xca bcb dcX dcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10011001010 01110011101 11110010001 0110101010 0110001000100 10110001101 1111010010 10111101100 11110100101 0010010100100 11000101100 1100110111 00011000111 00100010010010 101101010110 11010010011 0100101001101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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