This is an analysis of the poem By Still Waters that begins with:
MY tent stands in a garden
Of aster and goldenrod,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded feghXbcb aaiaXaba Xjgjkjaj fblbkmam nmgmgbgb Xfbfcici gblbXflf cbcbkaca cafaXfbf XadaXifi ndfdebdb Xgbkbahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 0101101 101011011 1110101 1111010 0100111 11010010 010001 01011011 0101100 10101010 11100101 0111010 100111 01001010 1010101 01011110 0101001 0101011 011101 0101110 101101 10110011 100101 01001110 1001001 11001010 0101011 10110110 100111 1110110 0100111 11110010 1001011 11001010 1001101 11110010 0100101 100100100 100101 010111011 1001101 10101010 101101 1111010 100111 101001010 100101 01110010 10100101 110001011 10100101 11010010 100101 10010010 01001101 1001011 010101 101011010 0100101 10111010 110111 1001110 1011101 101011010 001001001 101010010 01101001 10101011 10101001 101001010 100111 11011010 101101 11111011 0110101 101010010 100101 10101110 00100100 11111000 110101 01101010 1110101 11011110 010101 1111010010 0100101 11110110 110101001 1101010 110101 11110110 1100111 001010010 100101 11011010 110111 01110010 1101011 11010110 1111010 110010010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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