Poem Analysis of The Ways Of Water by Alice Walker for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Ways Of Water that begins with:

With your unknown
to me...

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Rhyme scheme: abcDbceefgXh Daigfjfcejkb hhhhcf eddblfggkcjaclfmjhXc hlblfhcfaegal kCachfhClf fkchdaghgm llaehlX mhmglhanoeac lolXdidna hhkXg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,6,20,13,10,10,7,12,9,5,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101 01 110 11 01 11 1100 1010 1 10 00 1 11 0 1100 10 10 011 1 01 1010 11 10 1 101111 0101101 111001 11 110 1 10 010101110 01 11 1010 011010 1 01 01010 1101 110011 1111 11 10 11 111 0101 10 101 10 10 11101 111 10 101101 010110 101010 111 1010 11 101 0 11 1010 01 0110 1 01 1 111 01 11010 0110 1011 110 010 11 0 11 01010 110 01 101 11 110101 10 10 1010 01 01 01 10 1 01 11 010 10 10 010 110 010 101 111 111 10 101 11100 110 11010 11010 0101 11101 01 010 1110
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 116
Average number of symbols per line: 11 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 2
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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The Ways Of Water by Alice Walker: poem analysis

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