This is an analysis of the poem Flute-Priest Song For Rain that begins with:
Whistle under the water,
Make the water bubble to the tones of the flute.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaCdefg XffdXfhg hhdfdhffdb beCfdg XiheXeeaXcgfig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010 101010001001 11011100010 11111 1010 01011011 11100011 10101 10101 110 10101 1101001 0101001 11110110 111101 1001 00111110 0011000111 1110 1011 0110 10101 00110 1001 010010 1 10001 00111 11111 1011 11110 1011 11011 101 11010 111100 11 11110 1110110001 1110010110010 1000101011101 111001001 1011111111 111110 101 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kee, water, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word rain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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