This is an analysis of the poem The Galaxy that begins with:
Torrent of light and river of the air,
Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001110001 01110100111 1111010101 1101111101 0101010111 0101010001 0001010101 11011101001 10111101010 010111101 10001001101 101101101010 0111010111 000100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of is repeated.
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