This is an analysis of the poem So many droplets in the sea that begins with:
So many droplets in the sea, in bread so many grains;
So too of our multiplicity, nothing but God remains....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001011101 110110100101101 10101100101 01001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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