This is an analysis of the poem Down Stream that begins with:
Comrades, up! Let us row down stream in this first rare dawnlight,
While far in the clear north-west the late moon whitens and wanes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XbXb XcXc abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111001110 11001110111011 011010111010110 001011100110011 010010111001110 10101001001011001 1111101011011010 1101101111001001 01110101011110 1111100101100111 10011101001000 10110010110111 1011010111011010 1011010010101 110100111111011 1010100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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