This is an analysis of the poem And Shall The Living Waters Heed that begins with:
And shall the living waters heed
our vain desire, insensate Art! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedefafadgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101001 11010111 100000101 11110111 01011101 01011111 111000101 11111111 001100010 11110101 0100101010 11010100 11010011 1100010001 10000101 11110101 01001111 11110111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 719
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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