This is an analysis of the poem The Water that begins with:
Let others make the songs of love
For our young struggling nation;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded cfefcded cdcdgdgd EhEhidXd eiaiciXiXbiiigdid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11110010 11011111 0101010 11011101 0111110 01110111 1101110 10110001 1100110 111100101 1101010 11110101 1111010 11010101 0101010 110100101 1100010 01111101 1101010 11010001 10010010 110101101 1111010 11010101 0101010 11010101 0101010 11111101 11010010 11100101 0111010 11011101 0101110 11111111 0100110 01010001 1111110 11011111 11010010 11110111 0111010 11111111 1111110 11010111 0101010 01111111 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, they are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word water at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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