This is an analysis of the poem A Mystery that begins with:
The river hemmed with leaning trees
Wound through its meadows green;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdad beae Xbcb afcf cgag hbib bcXc hcic iede XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 110111 01110101 010101 11110101 100111 11010011 010111 110100111 110111 01000101 0100111 11010101 110101 11010101 010110 11011111 010111 11110111 011101 01011011 110101 01110011 111001 11011101 111101 10011111 110101 01011111 101111 01010101 1100111 10010101 111111 01010101 010101 10010101 010111 110101001 010111 111101001 110101 11000101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Mystery;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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