This is an analysis of the poem The Wind And Stream that begins with:
A brook came stealing from the ground;
You scarcely saw its silvery gleam... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cbcbbb XbXbbb dbdbbb ebebbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110001 110101001 01011101 01000101 01010101 01010101 011100001 11010001 1101000101 11010101 01010101 01110001 010101110 110100101 101100111 110101001 010101001 01010101 010101001 01010101 0100011101 11011101 01010101 01010101 11011101 11010111 11010101 01011101 01010101 010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; stream, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stream is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word stream at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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