This is an analysis of the poem The Water's Chant that begins with:
Seven years ago I went into
the High Sierras stunned by the desire ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedddfghijfgkiijldmdnfkkXjegbXhaaXgmkblkadcXfnhnfge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100011100 01010110010 01110110001 101111 10101111 1111111 11001101 111010110 10110101 111111101 111111010 010111001 0101101 1110101 011111110 11001111 1011110 0111111 1101001010 11111 11 11110010 0111101 0111011001 0111101 1010001010 011111101 111011 11101010 01110101 11010110 10011110 111011101 1101011110 110111111 1011 101010 011011111 000110110 11111101 1010011100010 1110001001 010111001 00011111 110111011 110101111 011111111 010111111 011111010 010011110 110001110 10100111 011011011 101001100001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1961
- Average number of words per stanza: 371
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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, i, my, know, or, for, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know is repeated).
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- summary of The Water's Chant;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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