This is an analysis of the poem Douro that begins with:
The dripping of the boughs in silence heard
Softly; the low note of some lingering bird... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceeccddeeddffggccccc fhiibbccgXjjccddffggcckkccllhfccddaaaaddccdXkkXXccjjeecXaaddggjjccmmcceeXceeddaallggmmeeddeeaaddcccc nnccggaaccccaaXmcceefhXXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,100,26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100010101 10011011001 0101010011 0101010011 1111110011 0101000101 1101010111 0101111001 1011010101 11000100101 01011010101 1101011101 0101010101 1011010101 1001011011 100010001001 1001010101 0101011101 1101011111 01110010011 1111010101 1111011101 0111010111 1101110101 1100010111 1101101001 0111001101 1101110101 01010010101001 11110101100 1101001100 110100111010 11101101010 01011100101 1100010111 1101010111 1101010101 0001010011 11110101100 1100011101 0101010011 0101001101 10001001101 1001010101 11011100101 0101100101 00110001001 1111010001 10011000101 0101000111 1010010101 100010101 1100110001 11010100111 1001100001 10111010101 0110010011 1101010100 0101111101 1001010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101011101 01001110101 011000011101 1001011001 0100110101 1001010001 10010101001 1001001111 1101010101 0011010111 01000101101 1100010001 1101010111 11010100101 1101110101 1011011011 01010010111 0100110111 1101100101 1001010101 0101101101 11010101001 1101000101 1111010111 1101010101 1100110101 1011011111 01100010101 0101110101 1001010101 1101111101 0111011100 1001110101 1111010101 1001010001 11010100100 1111011100 11010010111 0101111111 00110110111 0100110011 1111011011 1001110111 1011100101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 110010011101 1010110101 1101010101 1001111101 0101000101 0101110011 0100110101 1111110011 1001110111 0101011101 00110011001 11011100101 1001110111 0101100101 1011110011 1011010101 11110100100 1001011001 1101111101 1101011101 1101010011 10110101101 01110010111 1111000101 1111101111 10010000101 1111010101 1111010101 1101100101 11011111001 0101001101 1101001101 11000110101 11010110101 1101010110 11010100101 110101101 1001010101 110010010101 1001001101 0101011101 0101000100 1011010001 1010110100 1101010101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2189
- Average number of words per stanza: 382
- Amount of lines: 155
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, so, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Douro;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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