This is an analysis of the poem The River Of Life that begins with:
BRIGHT with unnumbered laughters, and swollen by a thousand tears,
Rushes along, through upland and lowland, the river of life ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaabac cdeaaXad XbafXXXf fbeXebed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001011010101 100111011101001 011011010110110 01110110111001 0101011101111110 01010011101001 01010111011110011 010101111111011 110111110110010 110110101101001 10010010111011010 111100111001001 1001001001011010 110010011101101 1001011011110010 1110100101001001 1111001011110110 10111100001001 1111011111110010 11111111111011 100101110101101100 100100110101001 10010001010111011 1001011101011011 101111110100100010 10010111101011 10110011111010010 1001101011101001 1101101010110110 110100101001001 11111011010011010 11111001011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 535
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, sometimes, in, of, whether, thee, flow, on, to, or, as, eternal are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sometimes, always, what, why are repeated.
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- summary of The River Of Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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