This is an analysis of the poem Our Saviour And The Samaritan Woman At The Well that begins with:

Close beside the crystal waters of Jacob’s far-famed well,
Whose dewy coolness gratefully upon the parched air fell,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc aaaa ddee bbff ddff ffff XXaa ggff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10101010010111 11010100010111 0101011100101001 1011110111101 01110100110101 1111110010101 1111010101111 1111010101101 11110101010001 01011100111101 1010010110111 011101001010101 1101010010101 1001010010011 11010100110101 01111101110111 11000100111101 0101010110101 1111111010001 0111110111101 11100101010111 11011101110101 11010100110101 11111100111101 1101010011101 11010100111101 1111110110101 01010111011111 1101110010011 10110100011111 1101110100111 1101010110111 11111100110101 01111001110001 01010101110101 11110001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, his, that, for, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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