This is an analysis of the poem Repose Of Rivers that begins with:
The willows carried a slow sound,
A sarabande the wind mowed on the mead. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcX ccdceb XcXae fdfXf Xba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110011 0100011101 1110010 110101000010 11111001 1110100111 1100101 100111001011 1101010101 10111100 010 1111110011 11010010001 1101111 0111011101 10101010111 110001100111 10010111001 0101011101 001101010 11110101 111101001010 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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