This is an analysis of the poem Catterskill Falls that begins with:
Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps,
From cliffs where the wood-flower clings;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcc cbcbdd eeeeff cgcghh dXdXii jejXff kkkkcc bbbbll Xbdbee dedeee fgXgii Xkkkbb flfldd bebedd mcmcbb ececff ababmm bcbcdd knknll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101001 01101101 1101100101 00111001001 1110110101 1110010101 110010111 0100101 110011111 0100110101 010111101 110110101 1111100101 0011101 01101011001 011101111 11011101 001110101 110010101 0101001 110100101 1010111101 110011101 011100111 110011111 10101101 011100101 010101001 111010111 1010110101 111110101 00111010 1011100111 0010010100 1100111001 011111001 1010111001 0010101 11101011001 0101001011 1010100101 1010010101 010100111 10101001 010100111 1011100101 110101101 010110101 11001010010 00101101 1011011001 0010100101 1100101111 1100100101 111100101 10101101 1111011101 11101101011 1110111011 0010110101 011010111 0010111 111010110 001010101 101110111 1111001001 11111001010 1110101 111100111 110101001 100110101 1100101101 110100111 0110111 11010001001 110110101 111010111 110100111 11101111011 1110111 1110100101 0010110101 1111100111 011101111 111111101 1011101 11111101101 11101011001 1010111101 101010101 0100110101 11101111 011111011 011010111 010010101 0010100101 110010011 1011101 1111100111 1010100101 111010111 110101101 101010111 1110101 110100101 111110101 111110101 010110101 111110101 10101101 1100100110 010100101 1110011101 101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, 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 words and, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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