This is an analysis of the poem Steelhead that begins with:
The sky was cold December blue with great tumbling clouds,
and the little river...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXefgdfhijefXafdaakXXXfggfldffiibacaXfmjnfhba gabjfdlkkeXcXmnb oaaXXmfcaajffaedXmXmffndfiaoi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,16,29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101011001 101010 111101101 00110110 00100110 111011100110011 01011101 110110110000101 111110 110010111101110 101100110 10100011100 101010 100101100011 1110001011111 100111111011111 10110110001110 1010101011111 11010110101110 1101 111100110110 011110101111 101 1011110001011 110101101 11111010110111 1011 01011010101111 11110 1101110111101 01001011010 11011011111001 1010001101001 110101100111011 1101 11111010101100 100111011011 1101011110101100 110101101 11111011110011 1111100111 111001110010111 1001110 1011011011010010 1100110101 1110101101101 110000001001100 01100011 110110 01 110111011010 110110101011100 110111101111 11110011101110 11 11110101110111 11 1110011010011 1 11011011010111 11101101011 101111011110 00101110111010 1011100 0101011 010111110011010 10111101011 11110101101001 1101111111 1100101111110 1111001011 110100101011001010 0010010110 1100001010001011 110101100100 01100101000110110 1101001 100101110101000 1001011 101011111111010 111010101 101 1101000110 1110111 11011000010010011 010110100 01001110111101010 1010100011 11001110101001 111010101011110 10011011 1101100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1082
- Average number of words per stanza: 203
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, them, ', her, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines oh, ' are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase oh connects the lines.
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- summary of Steelhead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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