This is an analysis of the poem The Hudson that begins with:
AFTER A LECTURE AT ALBANY
'T WAS a vision of childhood that came with its dawn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabb XcdX eeff aadd gghhXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100101100 1101001111001 101011011111 01101101111 101011011001 11011101001 11001111101 10011011011 01011011011 11001001011 11011001011 11011011101 001011001001 11011001011 101101111001 11101011111 11001011111 111111101001 111111110001 01111011001 11111011101 110011001001 11011001101 11011001011 101001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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