This is an analysis of the poem Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring that begins with:
Seven stars in the still water,
And seven in the sky;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef dbdb ffff cccc gdgdXeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10100110 110001 10110110 100101 1101101 101100111 1110101101 1101101 1001111 010111 10110111 011101 1001111 1010101 10110001 11110111 11111111 1010101 110101001 10110101 1111100111 1100111 101100101 101101 10111101 11100101 11100110101 110111 1100110 001101 01101110 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; seven, in, red, her, roses, black, there, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, for, the are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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