This is an analysis of the poem Famous that begins with:
The river is famous to the fish.
The loud voice is famous to silence, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abc da e ff bcd XX Xade aXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,2,1,2,3,2,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010010001 011010010 110101001 01100011 0110101010001 1010010 0101010001 001011010110 0100110 01010001 1101011 10101001 011010100011100 1111100011010 1100100101 111101 101001001 10101111 110010001010010 10101101001010100 101010011011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, famous, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bosom is repeated).
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