This is an analysis of the poem Truth, Not Form! that begins with:
I came upon a fountain on my way
When it was hot, and sat me down to drink...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcaaccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010111 1011111101 01001110101 1111010101 1001010101 0101010101 0101110101 1111110110 11111101010 0001111101 1101010001 11111101110 01010101110 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; i is repeated.
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- summary of Truth, Not Form!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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