This is an analysis of the poem Happy Streams, Whose Trembling Fall that begins with:
Happy streams, whose trembling fall,
With still murmur softly gliding,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111001 01101010 1011101 01100010 1101010101 01001100 1101001101 01001100 11110111 11110101 10011111010 11011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; her is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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