This is an analysis of the poem River Roads that begins with:
Let the crows go by hawking their caw and caw.
They have been swimming in midnights of coal mines somewhere. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa XbXX XbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101111 1101001001111 1011111 10110111101001 1101001111111000 1011100110111001 1011111 101110100101 100110101000101011100110 1010101001010111 101010101010010010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; caw, let, and, his, red, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of River Roads;
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