This is an analysis of the poem Wash Of Cold River that begins with:
Wash of cold river
in a glacial land, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXXXac aXba bdbdbaXdX aeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,9,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 00101 1010 1111 10110 101001 11010 10101 10010 10101 110 1101 0011 11110 100111 1101 010011 100111 1101111 10110 1111 0101 11011 10110 100111 1001 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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