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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