This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Fifth River that begins with:
Where first by Eden Tree
The Four Great Rivers ran,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc acabeceX bfghXfcc bbiidjjd kckcXgkf XkdfXbfb bckkcahXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,8,8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 011101 01101001 0111000 1100101 010101 11110 1111001 11101001 10110101 0110101 10111011 100111 0100101 1010101 1010111100 101111 1100101 11101001 1100101 1101001 0111011 1010101 0101001 11011 010101 0111101 1010111 11000111 11001001 1101111 11010 101001 0111001 110101 1010001 111001010 1111101 011101 0101001 1110010100 111111 011101 0101001 110101 1110101 1111011 110001 0100101 010101 101001 0100101 010101 011101 1011101 010001 11001 1011000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, a are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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