This is an analysis of the poem O Child Beside The Waterfall that begins with:
O Child beside the Waterfall
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababcb AdXdbd AeceXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 10110101 100111 0101011 110101 11010101 110101 10010101 0100101 11010101 010011 11010101 111101 01001101 1101001 11010101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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