This is an analysis of the poem An Old Idea that begins with:
STREAM of my life, dull, placid river, flow!
I have no fear of the ingulfing seas: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb cbXX acXb aXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011110101 1111001001 1011011101 1101011111 0111111101 01110010101 01110000111 1000010001 11110111110 1011010011 0111010111 0100110101 1111111001 11010100001 1101010101 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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