This is an analysis of the poem Duck At Haldon Ponds that begins with:
At evening watches the duck
slow feeding the waterline....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bX cXd bbd aeXXece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 1100100 1001101 110010010 100110 100110010 101011 1111 11101 01001001110 11011 11101111 111011010 111111010011 101001 111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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- summary of Duck At Haldon Ponds;
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