This is an analysis of the poem Spring On The River that begins with:
O sun, shine hot on the river;
For the ice is turning an ashen hue,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbacca aXddaeea afffadda adddagga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1010101101 1011100101 1010011101 0010010010 010111101 101101101 010110010 1011011010 0101101110 0101011001 101101101 11011010 10101101101 101010101 111011010 1011010010 010010111 11110101 10011001 01101010 010110111 10100100101 1011010010 11001010 01001101001 0101101001 101110101 10101110 111111101 001011000101 1011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines river is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word river at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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