This is an analysis of the poem Waiting For Water that begins with:
’TWAS old Flynn, the identity, told us
That the creek always ran pretty high,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdccd XeXefgffg fhfhiciXc fhfhdiddi chchcgccg jkjklmllm Xdhdibiib nbnbfbffb ccccXXcXa ioiolbllb nhnhcdccd cicichcch flXlfdffd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010011 101111101 1110010011 111101001 1010010110 101101011 1011010110 1111010010 101001001 1110010110 111000001 1110010010 101101011 1011010010 011101001 1010110010 1011011110 001001001 1110011010 101101001 1110010110 111101101 1111010010 111001001 1010011010 1000110000 101011001 1011011110 101001011 1010111010 101101101 1011111110 111001101 1010011110 11110010010 111011011 1011010010 111101001 1010111010 101101111 1011110110 001101101 1010110010 1111011010 111001011 1011010110 1110001001 001010010 111001101 1110010110 101110101 1110011010 1010110010 001001101 1110110110 011111101 1010010010 111001101 1011111010 101001001 1110110010 1110000010 101011001 1110010110 101001001 1110010110 011001001 1011010010 101101101 0011111010 0010111110 001011011 1110011010 101111001 1110110010 101101101 1010010110 101011011 1011010010 0011111100 101101011 1110011010 1010001001 0011011010 101101001 1111110010 101001001 0110110110 1110110110 10111111 1011011110 111101101 1010010010 101101001 1011011010 111011001 0010010010 1010111010 101001101 1111110010 101111001 1110111110 001011001 11111100010 001001001 1110011010 0010011110 001001001 1010110110 0110010010 1110111110 1110110110 1111010010 101101001 1011010010 1111010110 101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 117
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, of, we, to, he, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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