This is an analysis of the poem The Wasted Fountains that begins with:
When the fitful fever of the soul
Is awakened in thee first;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe ebfb XdXd gede dheh bede ichc ehXX Xhih XXhe faea gjbj akXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010001 0010011 111110101 011101 1111101001 111101 01101100 110101 10101110 1010101 111010111 1001001 11101110 00101000 10111010 11000011 0111001111 1110111 110101001 010001 11101010 01101010 10101010 10101010 11100101 1010111 11101010 1011101 110110100 1010011 01111110 0110011 01111010 1011101 0110110 0110110 101000101 010101 11101110 1010111 01111010 1110010 11101010 1010101 11111010 1010111 10100010 1010110 11111011 1110001 1110111 10101011 10100010 11010001 101000101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; has, it, there, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words till, it, its, there are repeated.
The author used the same words when, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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