This is an analysis of the poem The Temple Tank that begins with:
Here, by this pool, where herons stand and wait,
In quietness I cannot imitate:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXX Xdddeebb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110111 0100110101 1111110101 0101110101 1101011111 0101110101 1011010111 1101010100 1001010011 0101010111 1101010111 10010001001 1101010111 1001111111 0101000101 1101011101 101110000111111010101110111000101011010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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