This is an analysis of the poem Niagara that begins with:
Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robe
Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXdaefbfdgfhdicgiXjfdckfefifjbXcaflgbXlhgkgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110011001 0101010111 10001100111 0111110101 1001111111 11010100101 0100100101 1101011101 010111 1101 0111110101 0101010101 0101011101 1011011101 0101111101 01101100101 01001001101 0011011111 11110010101 0101010111 010111101 1111010011 01011001010 1101100101 0101110101 011101 0101 1111010101 0011011111 1011001101 11010100111 1111011011 0111110111 1001110111 1101110101 100110101010 0110111101 1100110101 1000011001 1101001101 0101111 111 0101111101 0011100111 0111010001 0101001100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1895
- Average number of words per stanza: 338
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on, of, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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- summary of Niagara;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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