This is an analysis of the poem Shadow River that begins with:
MUSKOKA
A stream of tender gladness, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xaaaaab cddeeec fbbcccf ghhiiig chhhhhc fjjdddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 0101010 0101110101 0111011101 0101 1101 01000101 1111010 1111110 0100010111 01010100101 0101 0101 10110111 1111010 0101110 0101010101 1101011101 0111 0101 01010101 1010010 0111110 0101010111 010110010011 10001 0111 11010101 1101110 100101 0101110001 0101111101 1101 0111 01111101 100101 1101010 1101011101 0111110101 1101 1111 11011101 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, o, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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