This is an analysis of the poem The Well's Secret that begins with:
I KNEW it all my boyhood: in a lonesome valley meadow,
Like a dryad's mirror hidden by the wood's dim arches near; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gege hfhf ijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111100101011 10110101011101 011101111111011 1110101110010111 11111101101010 0010010101010101 110101000101010 1111111110010001 1111101010101010 101110101011101 1110011011101010 101010101110101 1010101010101010 1010010101111101 1110101110111010 001101101110111 1010101000101110 11111101011001 1010011110101100 101010101010101 1111101010101011 011010100110101 110111011111111 111010101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Well's Secret;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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