This is an analysis of the poem Northern River that begins with:
When summer days grow harsh
my thoughts return to my river,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXacbde bafXdcbbbX XXcXfXbeba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 11010110 1111001 0100011010 11011010 1100011 100110 01010010 111010010 111011001 11101110 11111110 11101 10110111100 0101111 1111101 010010010 1011110 10101100 1111110 10010100 1111011010 0011111 0111001 0101010 0110100 110101 110100 01001110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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