This is an analysis of the poem The River that begins with:
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As drones a bee with sultry hum... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbaA bbXA X ccaaXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010101 11010111 1101011 01101101 11011101 01101101 11011100 01101101 1 11010111 10010111 01110011 10010111 010110111 10110001 11010101 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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