This is an analysis of the poem Water that begins with:
THIS water hardly keeps a memory of its sources.
In arteries of cement...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac de aXaadbbe XdXfgahhi ddJjdakkda iiXdJjfXi d dae blal dd bdchac acXaii iX aggjb iaXc ii ac caah X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,8,9,10,9,1,3,4,2,6,6,2,5,4,2,2,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101000010 0100001 01101010 01010100010 111000101 110101010 1011010001 011001010 1010001010 11001010111 0011000100 0111001 11010001 100101010 1001 0010001 0101001000 0011011001100 1101010101 11101111010 111101110100 00010011110 1101010011 1110101 100101001 0101110 1101010 10101111 10111111 11100001101 111001 111111010 100101101010 1011111101 111101010110 11110100101 1000101001 0101110 01010101010 0001010100100 1101 11100101010 1101000001010 010101 0101000101 010101010101 11011000 0100111 001010111 11011101001 11010101 1010101 101100010 1100101010001 1001001101 10010001010 1011011001 1101 0011010101 0100010101 01110 101111 110111000001 10110101 010100001000101 1111000101001010 110101 11010010 10110111 01010 1011001101 01110111010 1000100101 11010101000101010 010100010 1100010101 010101010101 0100010001 110111 100100110101 11111101000101 1010100101 0101010001 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, you, there, they, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fire is repeated).
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- summary of Water;
- central theme;
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