This is an analysis of the poem Winifred Waters that begins with:
WINIFRED WATERS, when I look on you now,–
With the sweet peace of God on your beautiful brow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbbccddeeff ggddddhhbbaAff ii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010111111 001101111001 111101011101 101011011111 11011111101 111110001001 0111110001001 011011101011 101110101011 001001011011 101001111101 111101011001 1100101001 101011111011 001011111101 1110101110011 101110011101 11100111001 0010110000101 010111001001 1111011001011 111111111111 1100110111111 001101111001 11111111001 101101101100 110010111101 110111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 460
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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