This is an analysis of the poem On The Potomac River U.S.A. that begins with:
At close of June's most burning day,
We took a ship and sailed away :... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ddXe ffgg eehh iibb iijjXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 11011101 01010111 01110101 01010101 11010101 11010111 11011101 11011001 11010101 110011111 01010101 010111101 11010101 11111101 11010101 01110101 11010101 10010111 01110111 01111101 1101101 01010101 11010111 01010111 11010111 11010101 11001101 01110111 10010101 11110101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, and 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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