This is an analysis of the poem The Awakening River that begins with:
The gulls are mad-in-love with the river,
And the river unveils her face and smiles.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbaaaXacXbdAXcXbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010010 1010010111 0011011101101 1111010011100 111101101100 111001111010 0101100101101 110 1011000100111 1 001001001100111 10010001010 0111010010 11101110111 1110100101001 10 11101010011 1010010010010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 840
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wake is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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