This is an analysis of the poem The Two Rivers that begins with:
Slowly the hour-hand of the clock moves round;
So slowly that no human eye hath power... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde Xddddddddfegfeg XXggccggcedcedc Xgeeggeegfhgfhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,15,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010100111 11011101110 01011001110 0101010101 1111001001 11011110010 010010111010 0101010101 1101100101 0011110101 0101010101 01011010111 1001010101 1001010101 1 11001010101 1101011101 1111010011 0101111101 1100010110 1111110101 1001010101 1011011111 1101011101 1100010101 10010110001 1101010101 1100110101 0001011101 1 11011100101 11010001010 11110001110 1101010101 1101111111 11001010010 11011111010 1111000101 1101110101 0111010011 0111000100 1101011101 1101111101 0101011101 1 11110001010 0111010001 1100110101 11011101110 11010001010 1111011111 1111010101 0100101010010 0001000001 1101111101 1011001111 0001011111 1001010100 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; slowly, of, to, and, follow are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, one, and, i are repeated.
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