This is an analysis of the poem The Two Sides Of The River that begins with:
The Youths.
O Winter, O white winter, wert thou gone... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A bbb bbbb A cccb A dde bbbb A dddb A fff fffb A bbbb A Xgg aaab A hhhb A fff aaab A aaab A ddd cccb A fffb A fff aaab A bbbb X iii eddb AXdedb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,1,4,1,3,4,1,4,1,3,4,1,4,1,3,4,1,4,1,3,4,1,4,1,3,4,1,4,1,3,4,1,4,1,3,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01 1101110111 1101010101 1001110111 1101110111 1001010111 1101110111 1101110111 010 1111010101 1001011101 1101110111 1111011101 01 1111111101 11110011111 1001011100 1001111101 0101011111 1001010101 11001011111 010 01110001001 1101111111 1101110001 1101111101 01 1101110001 1111010101 1101110101 1011010101 0101111111 0101110111 1111011101 010 1101010111 1111010101 0101110101 1101111101 01 01011011001 01011111011 0101011111 1111111101 10001110101 1111110101 0111100111 010 1101111111 0100010101 00110101011 1111111101 01 1101010111 1011010101 11110010111 1101110101 1111011111 1101010111 1101011101 010 1111001111 11110100101 1111111111 1101011111 01 1111111111 1101110101 0101111101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101101101 010 1101111111 1001110101 0111111111 1111011101 01 1111011101 10110110101 1111010101 110011001001 1111010101 1111010100 1001111101 010 1001111111 0101010101 11110011001 1101011101 01 1111000101 1111101111 0111110100 1111010100 1111110111 11011001111 1111111111 010 0111011110 1101010100 1101010111 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, sweet, and, her, half, to, i, morrow, come, thou, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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