This is an analysis of the poem Shadows In The Water that begins with:
In unexperienced infancy
Many a sweet mistake doth lie:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccbb ddeeffaa ccbbgghh ddddaacc hhcceXhh ffcchhbb iiccggee ddiiaaaa eeeeccee bbhXaahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010000100 10010111 01110101 01011111 110101 011101 11010011 11001101 10110101 01010111 11010101 1000010111 110101 110111 11110101 01010101 01010101 10010101 01010101 11010011 011101 111101 11111111 01010001 11110111 11111101 110101001 11111111 110111 110100 11011101 01110111 11011101 11011101 10110101 11010111 110111 011000 11101101 01111101 1101100001 110010101 10010101 01010101 110111 111101 01011001 11010111 01010001 100010101 11011101 01011011 1101001 011101 110111001 01011011 11110101 11111101 01011101 11110111 110101 010101 1100010111 11011110 11111101 01011011 11011111 11010111 110101 1101001 11010100 01010101 01011111 11110101 01011101 11010101 101110 110111 01111111 01000100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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