This is an analysis of the poem The River Scamander that begins with:
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale;
Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeddff ffddggddaadd ddbXhh ffaabbffeehhiiff jjeehh ffddkkjjXXffee ffiiii bbaahhffccbbkkff ffiiii eehhggeellbbffff ddffffjjgghhdd ccffhXffiiiiff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,6,16,6,14,6,16,6,16,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 1111111001 11110101001 11010000101 0101110101 0101110011 1111000101 1101110101 0011010111 1101110101 1001000101 11010101001 0101010101 0111111101 1100010101 1111011111 1111110001 01110100101 1101010101 0101010001 0111010101 0100010101 0111001101 0111011101 0101010101 0101010101 1111111101 01010010111 1111110111 01001010101 1101111101 11111111100 1111010101 1101011101 10101111101 1100111101 0101010011 1101011101 1110010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010111 0111010101 0100110001 1100010101 1101010001 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101110001 0111010101 0100010001 0101011101 1100010101 01010111010 10111101010 0101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1001010101 0101001111 1101010001 0101010101 0101010111 1001110111 1100100001 1101010101 1101000111 1101110101 10101010101 0111010101 0101100111 1101010111 11010100001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 11011010101 0100011011 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 0100100111 1101010101 1011010101 1101010111 0101011111 1101010101 10001111101 0100110111 1111101111 0101001111 1101000101 1101110101 0101010101 0101010101 01111100001 1101111101 0100010101 0101010100 1110010111 0101011101 1001110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010001 1100011111 1101110101 0110110111 0101011101 1101010101 0111000101 0101010101 0101110101 1101011001 1101110101 0100011101 10011110101 10010101001 0101011101 0101111001 0101010111 1101010101 0100110101 0001011001 1111000101 1111010101 0101010001 0111011111 1110110110 1001110001 1001110101 010100100101 0111110001 0111011111 0101010001 0101011101 1101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 503
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 142
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The River Scamander;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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