This is an analysis of the poem The Stream's Secret that begins with:
What thing unto mine ear
Wouldst thou convey,--what secret thing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccb deedde affaaf dghddg giiggi jkkjjk effeef lmmllm ejjeej jnnjjn gaagga mffmmf lkkllk akkaak mbbmmb fooffo kaakka fppffp fnnffn allaal qffXqf ikkiik jggjjh kbbkkb ikkiik enneen kffkkf akkaak ieeiie kggkkg kggkkg effeef nffnnf kggkkg aiiaai mppmmp eff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 11011101 11001010100 10111000 11011100100 110111 111111 010011111 1111010101 01111101 10001110011 111101 110011 11110101 1101000101 00011111 1110010011 111101 111101 110011111 1011010100 11111101 1101010101 110101 1100111 101101101 1101010111 010010101 11011011011 011111 110111 01110101 11011101011 11011101 0111011111 011101 110101 01100101 1101011101 11010111 1001010011 110111 110111 01011011 1111010101 1011101001 1100110001 101111 111101 11010101 11010101001 11010101 110000101001 111111 111111 11111101 11110010111 01010101 10111101001 100101 110101 110100111 1101110001 011101001 11100101101 111111 111101 11011101 1101001101 01110111 101110011101 110011 110101 11110101 110110001011 010010001 1011111111 111111 0101001 00110101 1101111101 10111101 1111110101 111111 110011 10111101 11001011101 101111001 1011010101 0100111 1100111 11010111 1110110101 0111001001 0111101101 110111 1101001 110010101 010010100101 11110001 0101111101 111111 101111 11011111 1111110101 101101001 11001101101 111101 101111 001111001 10010100111 01010111 11011111101 111101 110111 11010111 1111010101 11110111 01011100101 01011011 110111 111010101 11110010110 01011101 1111111111 110111 110011 11100101 11010011100 1010011101 110100010101 0101011 111111 11010101 1101010111 01111101 1110110101 110100 1101001 010011101 11011100100 11110001 1101110111 010101 111101 00110101 01110011111 01111101 1111110111 110100 111001 10110101 11000010001 110110001 01001000111 1011001 011101 111100101 1110110001 11110011 10101010101 111101 101101 110111111 01001110001 11111101 1101010101 011111 010100 11010111 01110100101 01011101 11010011111 010101 010101 110101101 11010110001 11010101 1101111101 110011 111101 11111111 0101010101 010011111 1101011111 1001001 111111 01111111 1111010101 11111111 1011010101 1011101 1011001 01110101 1111101101 01110101 0111110101 0100101 110111 01111101 0111011101 11010111 01110111101 111101 011101 01110011 10001110111 11110111 0101110111 1100101 110101 110101011 1011111111 01010011 0111010101 101111 111111 10110111 1011110101 10010001 1111110111 110101 110101 11101111 110011110111 11011111 1001010101 110111 110100 11010011 1011001100 111101101 11010010100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 234
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, and, her, sweet, our, all, to, mine are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, its are repeated.
The author used the same words its, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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