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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