This is an analysis of the poem XX. 'To walk beside the river in the dawn' that begins with:
To walk beside the river in the dawn
Is fair indeed when spring is in the breeze,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabXab cbcbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010001 01011010001 11000100101 1100011001 1101011101 1001010101 1111110111 1111010100 0111011011 11110010101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010011 11011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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