This is an analysis of the poem Questions Of Travel that begins with:

There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams
hurry too rapidly down to the sea, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaXefbgcX hfbbaXXiiXjkjakhh lilgmidaXfiXiiXma ilafladadalcc hheh lbhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,17,13,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010110101 1011001001 10100110110101 101100101110 100101101101 10111111010 101011 00111111011 110000 1001111100100 01011010111 111100 100111 1111111101 111001 001001010001 00100100 1100001110101 01101101001 0101010101 01001101001 0111101001100 10100101000 1101 100111111010 111111 1101 1111 1111011111 1100110010 1011010101 10010100110 10110100 1101000101 1011011111 01110101 0010101 1001010 01110101 0010100111010 1111101001 0101011 01011001000111 11010101011 00011010001 11011010 101010110 10101000 110101011100 010101011 1101100 01010001010 1001101000 01010001010 11001101001 111101010 110010101010 110101010 01010010111 1010010101111 00101011111 110110101001 01110100011 10010100100 0101011101 11111111111 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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