This is an analysis of the poem Cherwell Stream that begins with:

Green banks and gliding river!
What air from what far place... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cdcd efef ghgh hbhb ijji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 110111 111101 1111110 101101 010111 111101 111111 100001 1101110 110101 0101110 001101 101101 110011 110001 110101 0101001 111111 111101 111101 010111 110101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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  • summary of Cherwell Stream;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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