This is an analysis of the poem XXIII. 'Over the waters but a single bough' that begins with:
Over the waters but a single bough
Stretches in silhouette against the moon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabaab cdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001010101 1001010101 0101110101 1101010101 1111110101 0100010111 1100011111 1111011111 1101010100 1101010011 1001101101 0101110101 1101110100 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; too is repeated.
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