This is an analysis of the poem See Where The Thames, The Purest Stream that begins with:
See where the Thames, the purest stream
That wavers to the noon-day beam,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeffe ffgccg hhfeef bbgiig ggXggf ccjggj Xecggc kkegge eeXkkc jjekXeXggdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11000111 010101 11010101 01010101 110111 11110001 10110101 010101 110100101 11010101 010001 11010011 110100101 010101 11011101 11010101 011101 11000101 110010101 1100101 10010101 11010101 010101 11010101 111101001 010101 11010101 0111011 110101 11111101 11000111 1101100 11011111 11110101 111101 11010101 001010111 11101 11111011 11110111 010101 11011110 01010101 010101 110010101 11010001 010101 10100101 001000100 110101 01011101 11011101 110101 11011101 01110101 0101010 11111101 11011100 011101 11110101 10111100 010101 11111111 10010100 010101 11110111 11010011 010101 100111101 11010111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word thus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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