This is an analysis of the poem Another River that begins with:
The friends have gone home far up the valley
of that river into whose estuary...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcXcdbecfcXdeecegdfgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111010 01100011010 0101010011 0101100110 1001001010 0001010110 0101110111 110101010101 0101001010 1101011010 100001111 010100110 01111011001 01011101110 11000111101 10101010101 10101010110 01111110110 101101110 10100010101 0101011101 100100111 10111101100 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 998
- Average number of words per stanza: 190
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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- summary of Another River;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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