This is an analysis of the poem On The River that begins with:
The sun is low,
The waters flow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbb Xccddd eeefffXfffeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 0101 11010011 0101 1001 01010111 0101 01001 11010101 1111 0111 11010101 1101 1111 01010101 0101 0101 01011101 1101 0101 11011001 1101 0111 010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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