This is an analysis of the poem Koening Of The River that begins with:

Koening knew now there was no one on the river.
Entering its brown mouth choking with lilies...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcbcbdddbdddddefddgegababbhchcbccidijijdddccfhfh cccXacbkkhhXXggg agdddjgjjjajXjjcjjjbbbbXXhhbXbbbcjXjdXdXddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,16,43,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101111111010 10001110010 11000101010010 100101010101 100111001111 0011101101 10000110111 0101010101001 1101111101 0111100101 010100010011 010110101001 0101000101 1001010111 01011010101 1101011011 11010101110 00110111101 11011100100 11110110101 110111010001 10010110101 0001101001 10001001010100 010101100111 11110101010 1001010101 11000101111010 10010101001 1111101010111 10001101101 01010011101 11010010101 110000101011 111010110100 1101110110110 11110100010 1111001011000 01000101010 10010001110101 10011111 01110101011 01001001011 11111110101 11010110111 0111111111 011101011001 1111100101 00010011011 11011101010 01100110111 10110101111 0101010100 11011111110 1101010101100 10101110010 10110111010 0111011101 10101010101 1111010101 110101111111 1101011010 1111011110 0101110111 101100101010 100110101 00101001101 11010010110 01010101010 11010110110 101111111 1010111011 0011010011 1111100101 10010110010 0101011101 11010100101 1011010101010 110 10111010 10110 010101 10111011101 1011010101110 11110101010 1011111011 11010101001 100100111101 0011111101 1110110101 01010110101 0101110101 11011111000 1010010101010 11010101010 1111010101 10110001010 10110011111 01110111111 011110011101 010111011101 01010101111 11110011101 0101111001 1011100101 101110011 00101010001 111001001100 10010010111 0101110101 10001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1679
  • Average number of words per stanza: 301
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, and, his, river, in, white, with, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, he, 'where's, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines german is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ghost connects the lines.

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