This is an analysis of the poem By The Waters Of Babylon that begins with:
Here where I dwell I waste to skin and bone;
The curse is come upon me, and I waste... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcdcXedefefgfghghbhbibXjijkjkdkdadacacacaXablXljljkXkXkbababaXmbmbmbabaXacbcbibjcjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 88,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 0101011111 01001100001 0101111111 1111010101 1111010101 1101111101 01111100010 1111111011 11010101110 1101011101 11001110001 1011110101 010010010100 0101011101 0101111100 01110011011 0101011001 1110110001 0100010101 1110010111 1101010001 1101010001 1111110101 10110011101 1101010101 1111101101 1011110100 0101011101 1101011111 11110101001 1111010101 1111110101 1111110111 1001111111 11110111001 1111110101 1011111101 1111011101 1101010111 1101001101 1111110011 0011001101 1111011101 10001011011 1111110110 1011111111 1011111001 1001110001 1101110101 1101110101 1101111101 1101110111 1101111101 01010110001 1011010001 110011010010 1001010101 01001111100 01011101001 1111101111 1101011111 1111011101 1111010101 01001011101 0111011101 0111100100 0100011101 1001011111 11010010011 1101110111 1001001111 1101011111 1011010111 10011010001 1101010111 0101010100 1101111111 0111010111 0111110001 0101101111 1101010100 1101111111 1110011111 1101010011 1101110001 1101011111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3741
- Average number of words per stanza: 710
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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, from, his, our, hath, and, my, their, that, to, who, before, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, his, our, who, before are repeated.
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