This is an analysis of the poem The Voice Of The Waters that begins with:
WHERE the Greyhound River windeth through a loneliness so deep,
Scarce a wild fowl shakes the quiet that the purple boglands keep, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc dXd eeeXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101010011 101110101010101 101010101011111 101010101010101 111011101000101 101010101110101 101010101001101 1010011010010111 101011100010101 001011101110101 101110101011100 101010101000101 100010101000101 10101010000100111 111111100010101 111000101010101 1111101110010101 101110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , in, to, one, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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