This is an analysis of the poem Water Lily that begins with:
My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaaX babX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101011 0011100100 01001001001 110010111 1010101111 1101110010 00101101 111010111 11011011100 1001011 0011010100010 101010010 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; i, of are repeated.
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