This is an analysis of the poem The Bather that begins with:
Water, frolic water!
Drops in the dazzle of noon, drops divinely cold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcaecebfcegahhacgigcajjfiXfcidXjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 100100110101 10011011111 11011100101 0101110111 101010 10010010 100100111 101100001110 110001 111100110101 10100111 010111 001101 101010 110100100101 11001110101 11101010010 101111 010101 100010 0100101 101101101001 101010 110111 11001 1100101 00100100100101 011011 10010100101 100101 1010010011010 01001011101 00010010001 11111010001 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1235
- Average number of words per stanza: 225
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of The Bather;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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