This is an analysis of the poem Sunday Up The River that begins with:
MY love o'er the water bends dreaming;
It glideth and glideth away: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010110 11011001 111011010 11111011 110110010 110111001 111110110 101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
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