This is an analysis of the poem Where Once The Waters Of Your Face that begins with:
Where once the waters of your face
Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabd abXaad bbcbbcXbbcbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 10111111 011101 11010111 11110111 111111 11111111 00010111 011000 01010111 01010111 110111 01001101 110100001 010111 11011101 01011011 1001001 11011101 11011101 110111 11010011 11010011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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