This is an analysis of the poem Haverhill that begins with:
1640-1890.
O river winding to the sea!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccbb ddee ffdd eefX gXaX ddhh eXee eXaa ggff eeee bbgg ffee iibb hhbb fXjj bbff hhcc bbXb bbXa kkbb bbhh fXee ddee ffdd jjdd llee eeii mmjj aafXXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11010001 11011101 01011101 010010111 01000111 01011111 11011100 01100101 11011101 01000101 01100101 011100001 11011101 01010101 11010101 010010101 11111101 11110101 110101001 11010100 11010101 11001100 11110101 01010000 110000101 11010101 01110111 11000101 01000111 01010100 01011101 01010111 11010101 11010100 01010101 11011111 10010101 10110111 110111111 01010000 11000101 11010111 11010100 01110101 11010100 01111100 01100101 01010111 11110101 01010101 11011101 01110101 110010111 11010101 11000101 010001001 110101001 01110111 11010101 01101101 01111001 01011100 11011101 01000111 11011111 010111110 11011001 11010101 11101001 11010100 11111111 11111111 11111100 11011101 110111000 11010011 101101011 01011111 1101011 11011111 01010111 111100110 11001101 001010101 10010101 11010100 11011101 01111101 11010101 11011110 11110101 01110101 11011111 11111101 11110101 11011111 110101011 11010111 11111001 01010111 11010100 010100111 11011111 01010111 111100100 11011001 01111101 00110101 01111001 11110111 11110101 11000101 111101101 11010001 11011101 011100101 11000101 11111101 11010111 01110100 01000111 01110101 01011101 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, nor, our, hand, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her, our, and, some are repeated.
The author used the same words we, and, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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