This is an analysis of the poem At The Water's Edge that begins with:
To sit and watch the wavelets as they flow
Two - side by side;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cXcX Xada eeee fgfgXabdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110100111 1111 010101111 1101 0011010101 0101 01001101101 0101 001101001110 0101 00110101010 0101 01011101010 0101 11111111010 01011 0111011010010 0111 010111000010 0111 1101011101 1001 1101010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase and connects the lines.
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