This is an analysis of the poem Where Perfumed Rivers Flow that begins with:
Where perfumed rivers flow,
Is the home of my beloved....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB dccB XXeB deXB XbXBXABCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 00101010 110101 00101010 1101111 11110111 1101011 00101010 11011100 01100100 101101 00101010 11111110 1011 1111110 00101010 1010110 10101001001010 101011010 00101010 101101 00101010 110101 00101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word beloved at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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