This is an analysis of the poem The Spring Does Not Flow Now that begins with:
The spring does not flow now, the stream is quite dry,
No traveller goes to quench his thirst there....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdXcbcX Xdca X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 001111101011 1100101011 01111111011 1100101101 100101001110 101100001001 1100010010110 1101000101 111110010010 1010100101 01010010011 1001001010 0011010110 1100100111 010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; no is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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