This is an analysis of the poem Song-Waves that begins with:
O soul, that art essential change,
Bickering beams, a flutter strange,...
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccdc EEfe ggeg eebe hhbh bbib Xjkj gbjg llll iiii eefe eXde ggdm nnXX lXml nnon eehe ppjp eede bbdb Xidi llXl jjfj bbib jjmj llel nnon gglg eefe bbeb hhfh bbeb XldX cclc iifi eede bbeb qqlq eere llll eehe ccec Xeee jjXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
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- Amount of stanzas: 234
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 1013
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, in, and, as, to, from, its, mine, love, her, thy, sleep, his, she, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, the, with, its, mine, on, her, thy, and, a, of, she, o, in are repeated.
The author used the same words the, love, this, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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