This is an analysis of the poem Moving Water that begins with:
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river
moving in you, a joy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xa a b Xc cc Xb a XXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111101111010 100101 1101001010010 101 11101111011110 1101011101100110 01010010101011111 1100010 0100010100110101 01100100 1100100011111001 11110100111111101110001 1111111010110 1011101111101101000111010010100 100101011001010011101010100101101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Moving Water;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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