This is an analysis of the poem Following A Stream that begins with:
Don't do it, the guidebook says,
if you're lost. Then it goes on...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXaabXbcdXXaXceXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 0111011 0101101 1001011 10101101 10100111 101101 011100 111011 0101010 0100101 1101010 10110111 010101 10011101 011110 111111 011001 0100101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 664
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you is repeated.
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- summary of Following A Stream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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