This is an analysis of the poem At The Ferry that begins with:
On such a day the shrunken stream
Spends its last water and runs dry;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd Xefegege fefeabab hdhdaiai bcbcXdgd hehegjgj cdcdkkXk XcXcicec hihiXXXh eXecebeb ihihelel
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 10110111 11110001 11000101 110111001 01000111 01011011 10010111 11010110 11000101 01011101 11000101 11110111 11010101 00110101 10010101 11111101 01001101 01000101 01010101 01010101 11001111 01110101 01010101 01110101 11110001 01000101 11000101 11000101 110000111 01111101 11010101 111100101 01010101 11100111 01011111 11001111 10110111 1111001 01000101 11000101 01000111 11010101 01000101 11111101 110101001 01011111 11010101 01010111 01011111 000100101 01000101 110101101 01001101 01111110 01010101 11010101 11010111 01110100 11000101 11011111 01110101 11010101 110101001 11110111 01111111 010010101 01010101 11011111 110001010 01111101 01000101 110111001 110111010 01010101 0100001001 11111111 11011101 11011101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11011111 11010101 01010001 11010111 01010101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, and, beyond are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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