This is an analysis of the poem The Old Creek that begins with:
The frogs still cry, 'Knee-deep! knee-deep!'
Among its starlit pools,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaabaX cXcaXbXb aaaadede fgfghihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 010101 11011101 110101 010110101 101111 10011101 100110 01010111 010100 11010101 110101 10111101 010101 010111111 110101 011100101 100101 10110101 0100101 01110111 0100101 10010101 010101 01110101 010001 11010110 011101 01011101 010111 01010001 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, its 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 The Old Creek;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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