This is an analysis of the poem The Fountain In The Forest.From Lamartine that begins with:

Lonely stream of rushing water,
From the rock that gave thee birth,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcd ededfgfg hihiajaj fdfhdgdg dXdcfjgj kgkgjjXj heXeaeXX aeaeilil gigififi ajajaeae hXhdXmXm XjXXhdhd hdhdggggXmdmdhili
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 0011111 11101110 10000101 11001010 1011110 10111010 1110101 11101010 1110101 101001010 100101001 10101010 1110001 10100110 10110111 101000110 1110101 10111010 1110001 11101010 1010111 11101010 1010111 10101010 1011101 101010010 1010001 11101110 1010011 10101010 10100001 111110010 0111110 11101010 1010111 10101010 0010100 101001011 1001111 11101011 0010001 10111011 101110101 11100110 10111001 10101010 1010101 10101110 0010101 10101110 0010101 10101010 1010111 10101010 1010100 11111010 1010101 11100110 1011101 10011111 1010101 1110001 1110111 10111011 0110001 11101011 1010001 11111110 1110001 10111010 1110001 11011010 1010101 10111010 0110101 10011010 0010111 10101010 0010101 01101010 00111000 00101010 11011010 101110010 0010001 10111010 0010101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 10101110 0110111 11101010 1110101 111001010 1110101 11100010 1000101 11101111 0110111 11101111 1110101 11111010 1010101 11011010 1100101 11111110 0011001 10111011 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; in is repeated.

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