This is an analysis of the poem The Old Swimmin' Hole that begins with:
Oh! the old swimmin'-hole! whare the crick so still and deep
Looked like a baby-river that was laying half asleep, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdXe XXffddee ccggeeee eeffhhXe ddXXhhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011011011111 11010101110101 10100010101101 1010101011101 0111010101101 0010101111101 1010101001110 10101100001101 1011010010101 11101010101100 101101001101 11111111101 011111111001 1101011101100 1010111111101 001111001101 101101001101 1011011110101 1101010101101 1010111111011 111101001101 1111111101101 1011011110101 1011101101101 1010010101011 101111011001 101001001011 101101001011 101101101101 101001011001 10101010001010 10110110101101 101101111101 01111101011 01001111001 10110111110 111101101100 11001011101 1110110111001 111011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hole at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Old Swimmin' Hole;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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