This is an analysis of the poem To A River In Which A Child Was Drowned that begins with:
Smiling river, smiling river,
On thy bosom sun-beams play;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc bdXd eeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1110111 11101010 1110111 01100110 10011101 1011100 1110101 1010010100 1110101 11100010 1010101 10101010 1110001 11101100 0010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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