This is an analysis of the poem Part 5 Of Trout Fishing In America that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X a X b c d e X e d e f X d c a d X g X h i X e j f g g c g d c j d b X d X f i j X a h X k X b e d e k X l l d X X lXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 1001011101011011 10101110 011101010101 10110111001001 010101100100101001 11110011010110 1010111011001 1111110101 0101111011111 110110110110 10110001111011 111011 1111101111111 1111111010110 10111011100010111 1 11011100101000 11101001110011 110101111111 101110111 01110010101011 1110101101010111 1010100 1110100100111 01111010111110 110101011 1001011100110101 010101111001111100 10010001010101111 11 10011010110001010 101110011111101 10 1101010100101100 10110100101011001 101100101 1101010100111010 101101011101010 0011111101001001 10100101101 1111001010100 1011011110011110 11110101101010 100101011100001001 1101111110 110101111110110 111011011111 0101110 1010011101001110 1001110101101110 101 10011010 1111110001100 1110010101001111 11001001 111100010101000 1110000101010101 111101011110110 101100111000010 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 63
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 47
  • Average number of words per stanza: 10
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; and, us, in, my, then, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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