This is an analysis of the poem The Boy And The Brook. (Armenian Popular Song, From The Prose Version Of Alishan) that begins with:
Down from yon distant mountain height
The brooklet flows through the village street; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba XAcca dAdda dAeea dAffgga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 010110101 01110101 10110111 0010111 10110111 1110111 110110111 11011101 1100101 10110111 1110111 110010101 101001001 111111 10110111 1110111 110010001 11110100 011101 10110111 1110111 110010111 01111101 10101101 110101101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word brook at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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