This is an analysis of the poem Bathing In The River that begins with:
The fish around her crowded, as they do
To the false light that treacherous fisher shew,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccc ddeeaaa bbeeaaa ffaaeee bbbbaaa gggghhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010111 00111100101 1101111100 111111 110111 010101 11001010111 10111110010 11011111010 1101110101 01111100 111101 11011111 1100111101 01001110101 11110011001 1011001111 111101 11010101 110011111 1111010101 10111111001 11001011101 10110011001 001101 11011111 11111101 11001011101 1001010111 10110001001 1101110101 01010111 100101 110011 01110011101 1011101101 10111100001 1011111111 101101 1010001 010111 11111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; as, and, to, your, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tell is repeated.
The author used the same word tell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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