This is an analysis of the poem I Didn'T Apologize To The Well… that begins with:

I didn't apologize to the well as I passed by it.
I borrowed a cloud from an ancient pine and squeezed it ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbcadbcdXXXefceggef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010100111110 1110101101110 11101101010011 10101101001011 10101011010 111101001101 1010000111110 0111011001011 1101000011010111 1100111111110 11111010100101 11100010110101 1110111100101 1110110101101 0100110101 01111101011110 001101100010010 0011001101 101001011001 1100110 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1042
  • Average number of words per stanza: 198
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, day are repeated).

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