This is an analysis of the poem Bei Hennef that begins with:
The little river twittering in the twilght,
The wan, wandering look of the pale sky.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab XXc dd eceff dXaXcaeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100001 0110010011 00111 1101111101 10101010011 110011 100111101110010 101110 11111111101 111010011011 001111111001 010010111011010 10010011 1101111010 1101110100 11011101 11000101 0010001 111 11 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, you are repeated.
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- summary of Bei Hennef;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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