This is an analysis of the poem Rip that begins with:
It can't be the passing of time that casts
That white shadow across the waters...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCXddefeXXgfXXXcgfgaBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100100111 111101010 111 1100100010 11101101 1100101 110011001100 01101 110110110101110 11101 111111111 111100101101 1110010101 00111001 01011 1 1111110111 001001001 1010101110101 11001110110 11001011 111101010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 788
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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