Analysis of I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander
Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904
I hear a river thro' the valley wander
Whose water runs, the song alone remaining.
A rainbow stands and summer passes under.
| Scheme | ABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Terza rima Tercet |
| Metre | 11010101010 11010101010 0110101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 131 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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