This is an analysis of the poem The Brook And The Wave. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third) that begins with:
The brooklet came from the mountain,
As sang the bard of old,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb acXc XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010010 110101 1001010 100101 101001010 1101001 11001011 1100101 101011010 1111101 1110010110 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
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