This is an analysis of the poem People And A Heron that begins with:

A desert of weed and water-darkened stone under my western windows
The ebb lasted all afternoon,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXbbXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011101011011010 01101101 110100010011011010011 101001011 1111110100111101 1010 11110011 11110010111100111010 1101110101 11010011101110 11010 0101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word well is repeated.

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