This is an analysis of the poem The Star And The Water Lily that begins with:
THE SUN stepped down from his golden throne,
And lay in the silent sea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXded XefeXdcd aegeebfX hbbbeada XdfdghXhXefbfbeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101 1100101 10101100101 1010111 10010100 110101 1110100101 01111001 010100101 00100101 010110111 11110101 1110101101 1110111 10100100101 1110111 0100101101 1101101 111100101 1100101 1010111011 11111111 10101111001 1111111 110010111 1100101 1110100101 0110111 111101011 1100111 011110111 1110101 1010110101 1010101 10101101001 10100101 1111100101 1100101 10101001010 1110101 0110101111 1100101 1101001001 1100101 011100101 1100101 110110101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, he, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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