This is an analysis of the poem At The Base Hospital that begins with:
The willows sweep the water, and the rushes lean a-down,
And I see the river shining far away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXXdededcdX fafaeceX XgXgdcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101010101 11101010101 001010101010101 10101110111 101111100010100 00101110101 101111101010111 10101010110 111000101110101 11101010011 001111101110111 10101111101 111010101110101 11101111101 1110101001011101 11101010010 11010101110101 10100010101 11101101110101 1101010001 11011101110101 1101110101 111010101110011 10101010110 11110101010101 1101010101 1111010101011100 00110010111 11111101110101 1111111101 111010101011101 10111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 559
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, at, i, we, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, they are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word glenbar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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