This is an analysis of the poem Erie Waters that begins with:
A dash of yellow sand,
Wind-scattered and sun-tanned; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbb cccddd eeefff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 110111 11111101010001 110101 111111 11011100011101 010111 110111 110010101110101 110011 110001 01010111010101 111111 110101 01110001111111 110111 110001 01011101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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