This is an analysis of the poem Fish And Shadow that begins with:
The salmon-trout drifts in the stream,
The soul of the salmon-trout floats over the stream...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab X cdXd XXXXXbXXX aXXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,4,9,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001 010010111001 10101001 010100111101 111011001 111010 1100011101 10010110011010 111010101011 1111011 1111 1101111 11111111 1001111110 010010 1010100 111 111001 010010111010100 11011001 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; salmon, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stream is repeated).
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