This is an analysis of the poem All Day I Hear The Noise Of Waters that begins with:

All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbab cdadcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101010 101 110110110 101 110110010 101 011011110 111 110101010 101 111111010 011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; winds is repeated.

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