This is an analysis of the poem River Lilies that begins with:
Saw a boy three lilies white,
Lilies in the river,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaabAB cBccbAB dBddbAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 100010 1110001 1010101 101010 1010101 100010 1011111 100010 1010011 1111101 101010 1010101 100010 1010111 100010 1001111 1010111 111010 1010101 100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lilies is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lilies is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word river at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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