This is an analysis of the poem Along The Ohio that begins with:
Athwart a sky of brass long welts of gold;
A path of gold the wide Ohio lies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd eaea fXfb fgfg bgbg bhbh bbbX cici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011101 0101010101 01011100101 011111 1101010001 1111010101 1101010001 011101 01011100101 01001110101 1001010101 010101 1001010111 10110010101 111110011001 100101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010111 110001 01010010101 11010101101 0101001101 110011 1101010111 0101011111 100111101 100101 0101010001 1101010001 0001001100 1111000 0111110101 0100010101 0111010101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, that, the 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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- summary of Along The Ohio;
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