This is an analysis of the poem A Song In August that begins with:
O gold is the West and gold the river-waters
Washing past the sides of my yellow birch canoe.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb X bcb bd ed afa f gfaf Xcac g hah Xf af hie Xi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,4,1,3,2,2,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011101010 101010110101 11011110110 01111010101 11111110111 1101110011 111100101110 101010010111 101110101011 11011000111 1101110111 11010101101 111110101010 1011010111 1110111101010 11011110101 101111100010 11001011011111 11011101010 10011111110 11111101010 10001110111 101010100101010 101011110111 10111101100011 01111000111 10110101001010 111010010001 1010110111010 1010110111 11101011011 01101111111 1111011101110 111110111 111000101101010 010111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; gold, you, and are repeated.
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