This is an analysis of the poem By Hudson's Tide that begins with:
What pleasant dreams, what memories, rise,
When filled with care, or pricked in pride,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcadXB efcfXcdcB ghbhaiaiB XadaXcgcB ceeedjajB ijajibXbB cbcbbieib acacikfkb fcfcaaaaXXdcdcddcdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111001 11011101 11010101 11011101 011010111 010100101 01010111 010111100 1101 11011101 01010111 01010001 111100101 01011101 01010101 11010111 11010101 1101 01010101 01010101 11010101 10010101 11000111 01010101 00010101 11011101 1101 11010101 110101010 10111101 010111010 11011101 01011011 11110101 01010101 1101 11011111 01011101 11011001 11010101 11011101 01010101 11011001 11110101 1101 10010101 11010101 010111001 10110001 01011101 11010101 11110110 11010111 1101 11100101 11011101 1111001 01011111 11111101 11010111 01010111 11110101 0101 10010111 11111101 11010111 01010101 01011111 11010011 11010101 010101001 0101 110101001 11000101 11001101 11010111 11011101 11011101 11010100 11011101 11010 11111011 11011111 01010111 01011111 11110111 11010011 11010011 11010111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, and, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, on, what are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word tide at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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