This is an analysis of the poem A Farm House By The River that begins with:
I know a little country place
Where still my heart doth linger,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dedeabaB fgfghbhB dfafhbhbXdededbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1111110 1100101001 11110010 10011101 1101110 11110101 0111010 01110101 1101010 11010111 0101110 110101001 11011100 11010001 00111010 01010111 0111110 01100101 0111010 111011101 11101010 11111101 00111010 11001111 0011010 01010101 1101110 01000101 11010010 11111111 0101010 11111101 1101110 110010101 0101110 11011111 0101010 11011100 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word river at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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