This is an analysis of the poem Green River that begins with:
When breezes are soft and skies are fair,
I steal an hour from study and care,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffXeggbbhhaaff iibbggjjccffiieeff aaeejjffeekk bbiillhhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,18,12,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110111111 1111001011 1110100111 1100101001 1001101101 1101100111 111110101 110100111 1101001011 0101011001 110110101 110101101 1011101100 010101101 1110111101 0100100111 0010110101 1011100101 1100100111 010111111 0100101101 1100100101 110010101 010111101 1111111001 100110101 110010101 010101101 1101111101 0111101011 1011111001 0100100101 10100101011 1101011101 1101101011 010111111 11010111 1010101101 111110101 010101101 0100100101 1100100101 110101101 1111101111 110100101 100111001 11000100101 1010101001 111111111 010110101 1010101101 10100110011 11101110101 10100100101 110110101 1111001001 1100101001 1010111011 110100101 010111011 110110101 101101101 110011101 111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, its, in 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 yet at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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