This is an analysis of the poem The Seeking Of The Waterfall that begins with:
They left their home of summer ease
Beneath the lowland's sheltering trees,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddee ffXg eehh eebb iibb eehh ccaa iibb dXhh jjff eecc hhbX hhaa kkcc kkaa ccll hhaa eecc eegg bbmm eehh aaee mmbb kXaa nnoo cccc kkXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010101001 01110101 01000101 11110001 11010101 00110101 10111101 11011111 10110101 11110111 01110111 11010101 01100101 01010111 11010111 11011101 0100100001 10110101 01111101 111100111 11010101 10110011 01010101 01110111 10110101 11011101 01110101 100111001 11010101 01011101 11011101 11010101 11110101 11011101 00010100 01010101 01010111 111111001 010101000 11011111 01110001 11010101 01010101 11110101 01110101 01110101 11010111 11010111 01011101 11100101 01010100 11110101 11110111 01000101 11110111 11001101 11110101 11010111 01000101 11111101 11011101 11011101 0110111 11011001 11010011 111101001 01010101 111000111 01011111 01010101 01100101 11010101 11011101 11110101 01100101 11011101 01000101 01111101 11110101 11010101 01111101 11011111 01010111 11111101 11010101 01110101 01110101 11010011 01110101 11010101 01100101 11011101 11001101 110010111 01110101 11010100 01010101 11010111 010001101 11010101 01011100 110011101 10110101 11010001 010111101 01000101 11011001 11100101 01000101 11110101 010100101 10111111 10011100 11010100 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the 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.
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