This is an analysis of the poem What The Miner In The Desert Said that begins with:
The moon's a brass-hooped water-keg,
A wondrous water-feast.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXbXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 010101 01110111 111011 01111101 110101 11010101 111101 11111111 111101 11011111 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 words my, and are repeated.
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