This is an analysis of the poem Stratton Water that begins with:
“O HAVE you seen the Stratton flood
That's great with rain to-day?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXecbfbcghgcihifjdjgedecbdbjgbgibgbXacabdcdebkblbcbbmcbbmabjbhecefbcbcabankckoblbccbhfbfXbaeajXdbgkfkdfcfcjajcjcjgacageheXeEbdbdcdcdfafjeneaeieaabaEonocafXbadXaeaegefeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 174,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110101 01011111 100111 11110101 011101 11111100 010101 10010111 110101 01110101 011101 10010111 110101 01110101 011101 11010111 110101 100111101 010111 111100111 1010111 100111101 010111 01111111 111111 101111101 110100 11010111 111111 11111101 011101 11110101 011111 01000111 010001 111101001 100111 01010101 1011111 11000101 110111 11010101 0010111 01110001 111101 110101011 011111 01011101 1100001 11011111 111101 11011111 1011111 11001111 110101 111110101 0011110 11000111 110101 101011101 0010110 101010101 111111 11111101 1011101 01110101 010001 10110101 011101 11110110 111101 11110111 111111 11111101 111101 111110101 010101 11111110 111101 111111010 110101 11111111 0100011 10010110 011111 11010101 101100 11111111 110101 01110111 110101 010110101 011011 11111101 110101 111100111 111101 10110111 111101 110101101 1011101 110010110 110101 11111101 110111 1011100101 1110101 111101101 1011001 01001011 110101 11110111 111111 01010101 110101 11010101 010001 01010101 011101 11111101 110011 11000110 110100 01110101 011111 11111111 011111 11111101 111111 11111101 110111 0111011 010011 0111011 110101 0111011 001111 11010011 110101 11010101 110101 110000110 010101 01110101 100101 11011111 111011 010110101 010101 11111101 111111 11111101 10111000 110011100 111101 11111110 111101 11010001 11011110 11110101 111011 10110101 110010 101111101 111101 11011111 110101 01011101 111100 11011111 110101 01010111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5668
- Average number of words per stanza: 1117
- Amount of lines: 174
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, you, to, your, and, her, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, his, and, her are repeated.
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