This is an analysis of the poem Song—Farewell thou stream that winding flows that begins with:
FAREWELL, thou stream that winding flows
Around Eliza's dwelling;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbc bdbdefef gfgfhahb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 0110010 11010101 0111010 01010101 1101010 0101001001 1101110 11010101 1111110 010111001 0101010 11111001 1111011 11010111 1101011 01001111 1110011 11111101 1111111 101010101 0101010 110010111 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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