This is an analysis of the poem Clear, sweet fresh water that begins with:

‘Chiare, fresche et dolci acque,'
Clear, sweet fresh water...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcadXebdfgacgecgXehijdaXklkemmhgXammkhbgifgalfmhagXkbXjhmdjXceedghXk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,69,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 11110 11010111 10011001001 1011010 0110100 0101010101 1110101 1010 10001101 011101 1111101010 10010 01111 0001100 1101010 11111101 11110 1110011 1010110001 110110 011101 0001010 101010 1100011010 1001001 101010111 01010101 1010011101 001000101 1111111 1111 110110110 0111110 1010101 010110010 001011101 11010011011 1110010 100100101 01010010 100100 00100100001 1111 1001110 101101010 0101101 1001011 11111100 11111 110101110010 110100100 101011110 1101010 11011 11011101000 00110 10101011 1011110101 011 111110 1011111 0101101011111 1101 11111111111 10111110111 1110 101110110 0101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 722
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; her, and, one, i, you are repeated.

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