This is an analysis of the poem The River that begins with:
The river flows and flows away,
A lonely stream through forests gray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaBcccB dddBeeeB fffBgggB fffBhhhB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01011101 110101001 0101010 11010101 01010101 11010101 1100010 11110101 101100101 11010111 0101010 01000111 101011101 11010101 1100010 01110001 11010110 11011101 0101010 01010111 01011101 1011101 1100010 11010101 110100111 11001110 0101010 11010101 11111101 11011101 1100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The River;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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