This is an analysis of the poem The River Song that begins with:
This boat is of shato-wood, and its gunwales are cut
magnolia,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgdhid ejkjggfc dacfki cliecfXehgXdjagXbilXeiggXlXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,6,30,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001011010011 010 0100100110101 110101111 0110101 1101011001010 1101 0101101011110 110011110 1011 100111 111010 011101 1111101 10011010 1111011 1010110 01011010 1010011110 1111000100100101 1001 1110101001110 10 1010011 11011100010010 01011011000010 10111 0101101011001 10 100101111111 10 111001010011 10 1101011110 110 1110011011101 10110 101110101101 00 011001000101110 1 10010110010110 100110 10100011 11101110101 0010011100101 0110010 0100001001110010 10 11101001101101 101110110101 1000 101011111011000 1101001 11000111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 485
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 words he, their are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nightingales is repeated).
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