This is an analysis of the poem They Ask Each Other Where They Came From that begins with:
AM I the river your white birds fly over?
Are you the green valley my silver channels roam?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111110 110110110101 0101010111110101111 111 100111010 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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