This is an analysis of the poem The Mill-Water that begins with:
The water-flag and wild cane grow
'Round banks whereon the sunbeams sow... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eeee bbbb ffbb gghhX iee jjkk ffll iiddXbbkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,3,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 11100101 01011101 011101000 01110101 01011111 11110101 01110101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11011101 01010111 01010111 11011111 010010101 11000101 01111101 11010111 11000101 11010101 11011101 11011101 11000111 11010100 01111111 01111101 110101011 01010111 11110111 10010111 01011101 11110111 11010111 1101101001 11000101 01010101 01011101 01010100 01110111 11110011 10010101 01010101 00110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.
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