This is an analysis of the poem The Banks Of The Devon that begins with:
HOW pleasant the banks of the clear winding Devon,
With green spreading bushes and flow'rs blooming fair!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeaeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010011010 01101011101 101011010010 11011101001 10011011010 001101101001 110010011010 11101011001 110110110110 01101111001 110110110110 01011001011 110010011010 11001001011 010110010110 11011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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