This is an analysis of the poem Troll's Gold that begins with:
O I stood by the waterside
And heard the stream run by....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcXc XcdcXcac bXXaXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 110111 1101111 010111 11110111 0011011 01011010 110101 1111110 111111 111110011 010101 1111011 1011011 11111001 10101101 10011101 011100 01011101 010111 01110111 110111 01111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; they, have, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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- summary of Troll's Gold;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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