This is an analysis of the poem The River-Captain’s Wife – A Letter that begins with:

I with my hair in its first fringe
Romped outside breaking flower-heads....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcac XXcX cdcX Xbef Xbgg bXeXXbdbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110011 101110101 110110110 11011101 1001110 1110011 11111011 11011101 11011001 11010101 01011101 100101010 10001010 10111010 10111101 111111110 10101010 10101011 11011111 1010110 1111010 11101010 10010101 101001110 1110101 10111010 11110110 10111010 11101010 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; to is repeated.

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