This is an analysis of the poem On The Paroo that begins with:
AS WHEN the strong stream of a wintering sea
Rolls round our coast, with bodeful breaks of storm,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccddeddd cfgdddXhdi cjddkejgbebdh ailmddnghXddd cdlehdedeenccm ehdcdmdadjac XmdggddgbdkXlddedfgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,13,13,14,12,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011001001 11110100101 1111110111 1111000111 0101110001 1101010101 1111010100 0111110101 0101110101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 01110010100 1001011101 1101011101 1111110101 1101010110 0101010101 0101000101 1101010101 1101110101 11001010111 1111010101 1101000101 11010010111 0101111101 1101010111 0100101101 1101000101 1111000111 11001010100 11001110101 01011000101 1101011111 0101100111 0101010111 1001010101 1100010101 0101010101 01110101010 0101010111 1101010101 1111010111 0101010101 1101011101 1101110101 1111111111 1111011101 1100111111 1111010111 0101010101 1111011101 1101100111 1111011101 0101111101 1111111101 01010101010 1101010001 1101010101 01010001001 0100010101 010010110001 11011101001 0101010101 1101010101 1111011101 1101010111 11001011111 1101110101 0101000111 1101011101 01111 11011 1101001101 1100011101 1111110101 111100111001 1100011101 1111010111 11110001001 0111110101 1101010111 010101 1101 0101110101 1111010101 0101011111 0101111111 1101011111 0111110101 010011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, them, in, we, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, are are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sing connects the lines.
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