This is an analysis of the poem In The Harbour: To The Avon that begins with:
Flow on, sweet river! like his verse
Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggXX XXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 11010111 11110111 11111111 01011101 11010101 01000101 11111101 10110101 11011011 00110001 11010001 11110101 001111100 010001001 111111010 11010101 01010111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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