This is an analysis of the poem In Midas' Country that begins with:

Meadows of gold dust. The silver
Currents of the Connecticut fan...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababa cdcXX edeXX fXXXf ghghg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011010 100001001 1010011010 101111110 11000110 00100111 001001001 0111111001 111010101 11011111 01010010 100101101 1111101011 101010100 110100100 11010101 1011101100 1101010100 010100101 11110010 11111111 101011101 0100101001 101100101 1101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; on is repeated.

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