This is an analysis of the poem As A Beam O'Er The Face Of The Waters May Glow that begins with:
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow
While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011001001011 101101011001 101101001101 101101011001 11001011011 011011011111 011101011011 111111101011 101001001001 101101001011 01001111001 011001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, it are repeated.
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