This is an analysis of the poem The Rivers that begins with:
GO! trace th' unnumbered streams, o'er earth
That wind their devious course, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efeX gggg hihi jkjk gfgf cccc dldl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001101 1111001 11011111 111101 11010101 110101 11110101 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 010100 11011101 010101 11110101 100101 11011111 1100111 11011111 001101 111001101 111111 11010101 010101 01110111 0111011 01000101 110101 101100111 010101 10110101 011111 11110101 110101 01010111 0100001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, through are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, through, the are repeated.
The author used the same word some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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