This is an analysis of the poem The Perch that begins with:
Perch on their water perch hung in the clear Bann River
Near the clay bank in alder dapple and waver,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb XXX XX cc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001110 10110101110 1111101110110 11111001010110 1010011110100 1 1001011001010 101001011011 00110101001011 101011001111 0010111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; perch, in, and are repeated.
The author used the same word perch at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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