This is an analysis of the poem The Fountain Of Tears that begins with:
If you go over desert and mountain,
Far into the country of Sorrow, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdXac eddcccec afXcaaac dddcaadc addcggac dcccggdc cggcaacc hffcbbhcXhhhcddhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010110 100010010 011011010 11011110 1110011010 110110110 1110010010 11001001 1010010110 110010110 111110110 01011111 1010111010 111110110 1100101010 11001001 1011010010 110110110 110011100 01111011 1110010110 111111110 110011010 11101001 1011011110 110011010 110011110 11000001 111101110 110110110 1111110110 11111001 1011111010 110110110 111011010 01111111 10111111101 111110111 110011110 11111011 1011111010 110011010 110011110 11101101 1010110011 110111111 11000110110 11111111 1111010110 111111111 111111111 11101011 1011011110 111010110 011011110 11101001 1011110110 110110010 1111010110 01101010 1110010110 111111110 111010010 11011001 1011011110 010011110 100110110 01011000 1010010110 010011010 111010110 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, of, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, may are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word tears at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Fountain Of Tears;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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