This is an analysis of the poem In The Slight Ripple, The Mind Perceives The Heart that begins with:
In the slight ripple, the fishes dart
Like fingers, centrifugal, like wishes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbbbcaXdbdXaXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001100101 1100100110 101101 1011 1010100110 01110011 101011010 11110010101 111111011 10101011100100 1001001101010 1110010101 11010101010 10010101010 100111 11011 10111 10011001010 01110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 880
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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