This is an analysis of the poem Flood-Time on the Marshes that begins with:
DEAR marshes, by no hand of man
Laboriously sown, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaacdc edbdfgdg bhhhebib dhdhcdhd agdgfbib cbXbXdXd bcecahbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 010001 11011001 111101 01111101 010101 11010101 110101 10111101 110101 11011101 110101 11010101 111101 00010101 111101 01010111 011101 01010101 010101 11010101 1101001 01010101 010011 01011101 110011 11110101 011111 11111101 110101 11010101 110001 110010101 011111 110010111 010001 11011101 011101 10110101 010101 11011101 011001 11110001 010001 11010001 0101001 11110111 110101 11010101 110101 01011101 010101 01000011 1100001 01110101 0111000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; , to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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