This is an analysis of the poem Mad River, In The White Mountains that begins with:
TRAVELLER
Why dost thou wildly rush and roar,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXa cdccd Aedeed afgffX Ahfhhf iiiii ifiif jXjjf gkggk ggggg ljllj mfmmf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,6,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100 11110111 1101110 11111101 1100111010 0101010 11010111 1101110 11111101 00110101 0101110 010 11101101 1100010 00011101 01010111 0001010 100 11110111 0101010 10011111 11010111 1100110 010 01010101 11110100 01011101 110010101 10001100 10110101 1011110 10010111 01010111 1101110 11111101 1101010 01000101 01010111 0101010 11010101 0101100 110100101 11101101 1100010 11010101 0101110 01010001 11000101 0110010 11010111 0100110 10110011 01000101 1101110 11111111 1101110 11110111 11110101 1101110 11111101 1011010 11010101 11110111 01110010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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