This is an analysis of the poem The Naiad that begins with:
She sits among the iris stalks
Of babbling brooks; and leans for hours... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaaaXbccbaabXbXXbccbXcddcddcXbbbbdXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 0100111110 010101010 111101 01110111 10110101 110000101 0011100 10110001 11000101 11111101 010111 11010111 01010101 11000111 0100100 110011101 01111101 01010011 010101 11111111 01110011 01011111 100100 11100111 11111111 01011101 111111 11010111 11110101 11010111 01001100 11111011 011101011 11111111 111111 11101101 11000100 11011111 0100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1340
- Average number of words per stanza: 247
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, or, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
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- summary of The Naiad;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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