This is an analysis of the poem The Fountain Of Blood that begins with:
A fountain's pulsing sobs--like this my blood
Measures its flowing, so it sometimes seems....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba aXXX bac bXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011011 1001010011 1101010101 1011110101 11011101110 101111101 1101011111 10010101100 1101111111 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 111001001 11001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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