This is an analysis of the poem O, Water, Voice Of My Heart... that begins with:

O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand,
All night long crying with a mournful cry,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbb cdcbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101110001 1111000101 111110110101 01011011101001 1101011001001 11101001001 10010111001 1011110111 10100010101001 101101011011101 111100101 101011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; voice, of, my, water, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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