This is an analysis of the poem The Thames At Mortlake that begins with:
if only for ten minutes
after the mass feeding of schoolchildren... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bX cac d ee Xbc efX f XXe X efX Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,1,2,3,3,1,3,1,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 1001100110 100101000001 111 0101 11110001 0010101 10110100 01101000 01000 1 1 1001101 011101111 10100 1011100 1011 111110100 101011 100010010 1101010 1 1001001 1100101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 51
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Thames At Mortlake;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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