This is an analysis of the poem The Well Of All-Healing that begins with:
THERE’S a cure for sorrow in the well at Ballylee
Where the scarlet cressets hang over the trembling pool: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110001110 10101011001001 11011100010101 10100101 1011001010100101 011010100101 1011001011110101 1100101 1010001011101 10101011101001 1011110010101 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; many, are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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