This is an analysis of the poem As A White Stone In The Well's Cool Deepness that begins with:

As a white stone in the well's cool deepness,
There lays in me one wonderful remembrance....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX bcbc adda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001110 11011100010 11110111010 00110111010 11111100010 0011110101 10011101010 11110010001 1101110110 10011100110 10100110100 01010001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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