This is an analysis of the poem The Wonderful Spring Of San Joaquin that begins with:
Of all the fountains that poets sing,--
Crystal, thermal, or mineral spring,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd dddeeff gghihhiaa jjjfccckkXlXemM ddaadddd ddhXnnnmMdd ffmmjnndddd ccgggmgmgcckdkdddd kknnfXffjfdd lXkkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,9,15,8,11,11,18,12,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101101 1010110001 1010101 10100101 010100101 1100100111 110010111 10110010111 101000110 100101010 10011010 10011101 101001001001 10100100101 110101111 01110100 110100101 11010001 10101001010 01110111 11010101 0010001010 1011100101 1001011001 11110101 011100101 01011011 01010001 0100110101 1001111 1110101 10010101 10011101 100100110 100110101 0101001010 101111001 11010101 010000101 10010110 010101101 10100101 10101101 010110101 010110101 110010111 1110100111 10010101 000100101 11110111 011001100 10010101 11101111 1110111001 11110001 010000101 11110111 010100111 100100101 1010011110 11010111 111100101 01001001 01010111 110010010 10101101 011100101 010101101 0110100111 10110101 010100101 11110101 110010101 10010101 1100100111 1100101110 11111101 0100101010 100100101 010111001 01011111 101001110 010101111 1101001010 110100111 0100010111 10110111 1110101 10110101 10010101 111110111 1111101 11100100 1110100 001110101 111101010 110100010 01111101 0011100111 10 11011011 01110101 1010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, the, beyond, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word joaquin at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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