This is an analysis of the poem Fishing On The Susquehanna In July that begins with:
I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna
or on any river for that matter...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XbA def feA cga cbc Xaa hgd ija ecf Xbi eXj Xjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010101010 1110101110 0010010 10011101 111010000010 010101010 11110001 00101101 0100010101 0101011010 10010100010 010101010 10101 1101010 101010 101100101 100110010 110001001 1010111010 10101010 1110100010010100 1110010101 010010 0111010101 10011101 110101 1010001110 100011 1101 10011001 101011010 10011010 100111010101 111111 01001001 01110100101 1010011 111100010 101011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, on, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, in are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word susquehanna at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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