This is an analysis of the poem From Book I, Paterson that begins with:

Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls
its spent waters forming the outline of his back. He...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefXacbfghX aaahXh caeeagXe Xaed cXcXhg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,6,8,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100101000101 0110100110011 1101111010 00101001010001 011010101101 0010101101011 01011011101010 111110100001010 10110001001010 10001010001011 10111010101 0010111110100 1011 110101010100 101010101 10101100010 101001 11100101100 11010101 1000010001 0011010110 101010100101 010011011 1101011 111010011 010110001010 110001001 0001011111 110100010 10011 0110001 1 01101010101010 1101110110 010001011010 1 10111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, their, and, like, women are repeated.

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