This is an analysis of the poem The Water Ouzel that begins with:
Little brown surf-bather of the mountains!
Spirit of foam, lover of cataracts, shaking your wings in falling waters! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXXaXXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100010 1001100101101101010 111100111101010 01001010100101110 111110100010 111010010111001 00101011011010 0010101011110101011 11 111111010111010 1110110010 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, must, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, must are repeated.
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