This is an analysis of the poem An Unwritten Tragedy that begins with:
Ho, ye that thirst beside the running stream!
Love is a running stream, whose waters flow... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefgfg hcdcahhehh ibgXagdghf fjXefigjjf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1001011101 0101111111 1111011111 11010100010 11101011101 1110010101 1101011111 1101010001 01000111001 1111111111 1001011101 0101011001 0101011100 0011111101 01001111100 0111010101 0111111101 1101010101 1101010001 1111111101 0101110001 11110100101 1101010111 1101111101 1101000101 1111011001 1001100111 1011111111 0011010101 1101100101 1111010001 0100011100 1111001001 0101011101 0101010101 1101101110 0101010011 1111010101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 433
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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