This is an analysis of the poem Rivers that begins with:
This mutilated tree gives
Me support, left in this pot-hole...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefg hij jXa Xihi ajgg Xklchj afX gkk jl Xcaii bgdga jel hX XedaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,3,4,4,6,3,3,2,5,5,3,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011 10110011 0101000010 0111001 11 010100 11001 01011 11011010 1010110 010010 11 1001 1111 1010 1111101 10010 1111 101101 1110100 00101 000100 10011 1111 00101 0010 1 110 111101 110100 1110 111111 011 1101 010011 0100 11101 11100 11010110 110 0001 111101 11 1101001 0101 000101110 01100101 10111 11110010 00100 001010 101 11111 0011111 010 101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, my, and are repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Rivers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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