This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Artesian Water that begins with:
Now the stock have started dying, for the Lord has sent a drought;
But we're sick of prayers and Providence -- we're going to do without; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCcddcaaeeCCffc bbaaCCggc aabbCCXcc aabbccffcXccccccggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101011101 1110111001100101 001010111010101 111010101010101 101101 1110101 1010101010101010 0011111011100010 11100010101 111010111010101 1110101101111101 1010010100001111 111010101011101 101101 1110101 0110101010100010 1010101010101010 11101010101 101110101010101 101011100010101 101111101110101 1110101000101101 101101 1110101 1010111010111110 1111101010101010 10101010101 111110101111101 101110101010101 101010111011101 111010101110101 101101 1110101 1011111010101010 1111101001101010 11111010101 101010100010101 101110101110111 101010100110101 101010100010101 101101 1010101 0010101000110010 0010101010111010 10111010101 101010101010101 101000111010001 1010101010100101 001011100010101 101101 0010101 0010101010100010 1010101000101010 00101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- 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; down, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines down is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word down at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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