This is an analysis of the poem From Living Waters that begins with:
Commencement poem, written for the
University of California, June,1876.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bcBc Xded bfbf dghXijh kljiXldi XeiXhkXl jmjm kgkg gjdlgnil fjjijnci kkXdiXbdjjdgXnog ahgXjnXk klkl dndn bhBh mikhXohhXkhcdmnld
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,7,8,8,4,4,8,8,16,8,4,4,4,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010 101000101010 00010010 0001101 11110110 1001011 1001001 11001001 1011010010 11101001 110010010 1011011 111011010 1011011 11100010010101 1110001010101 11 101010110100 01 001110100010 101 10111000011 101 1010001000110 11 10110001011 1111 10111010101 0111 11111000010 111 11101010011 1101 101111101001 1110 1111111010 10101 11011010 1001101 10110110 11101101 10010010 101011 10110010 1011001 11111010111 01010 1110101010 11101 001011001010 0110 111010001110 101 11101110111 11010 001011101100 11 1101011010100 010 11101011101 1111 1110101101 0101 10101010111 10001 101011000111 11 101011101010 101 10100011110 100 10111010101 1101 101010100110 1010 1010101011 10111 11111111010 101 101011101010 001 101110100010 1010 11100010111 1001 00110110 1001001 101110110 11001001 10111010 1001011 10110010 1111011 1001110 01111101 11110110 000101 1110101101 1101 111000111011 101 10101110011 101 101010101011 111 111110010101 11 11100111010 10111 11101010001 01010 11101010001 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 113
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, our, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words into, o, 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 read, sheaves are repeated).
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