This is an analysis of the poem Along The Pale Waters, In These Valleys that begins with:
Along the pale waters, in these valleys,
Silvered with moonlight and willows,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcda edXcef agafgXX abeXab egXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101100110 100011111 00111111 011010 101 111101 1101 1000111 111011 1110100 0101010 10 0101 10101110011 1110 110010 111101 11100 100011 1001010011 1001011010 11100111 01000101101001 101011 10100011 110101 110111111010 01000111010 10001101011 1101100100 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, they, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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