This is an analysis of the poem The Bowl Of Water that begins with:

She is eight years old.
When she laughs, her eyes laugh;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcbddXdcaaXcbeebfgddbXhggXgfXbdhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 111011 110001 1101011 100101 11111101 1010001 110001011 101000111 1101010101 111001 111101 1001010 100101 10100011 1100101 010111 1111001 0101010100 1000011101 1101111101 110101 10110101101 1011100101 110101 110101 11110011001 1111001110 110101 100100 10110 1101110 110111 101 1101010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 202
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; she, her are repeated.

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  • summary of The Bowl Of Water;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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