This is an analysis of the poem To The Wissahiccon that begins with:

My feet shall tread no more thy mossy side,
When once they turn away, thou Pleasant Water,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccccdXdebfbfccggff eehhcicihhee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111101 11110111010 1101010011 01010011010 1100111111 0101111111 0111010101 1111111101 1101000101 0111101100 1111101101 1101011111 10111101110 10110011101 111100101010 1101110111 1101110101 1111010101 1101111101 11110011101 1101011101 01011001101 1001010101 10011010011 1111111101 0111010111 10011110001 0101100111 10101110111 01010011101 1101010101 1101011111 11011100101 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 754
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, my, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of To The Wissahiccon;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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