This is an analysis of the poem In The Valley Of The Waters We Wept O'Er The Day that begins with:

When some proud son of man returns to earth,
Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccaacceeffffggcchh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010101 0101010111 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111111110 1011010101 0101011001 1101010101 1101111101 10001010101 01010011111 11111100010 11010101010 11110100110 011100101110 1111111001 0101010101 1101110101 1101001101 1101010111 1101111111 1101010101 1101011101 0101011101 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 205
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.

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