This is an analysis of the poem Vields By Watervalls that begins with:
When our downcast looks be smileless,
Under others' wrongs an' slightens,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbbXX XXXbccdX XXXXccdX XeXeffaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110100 10101110 11101010 11101100 1111101 11111111 110101010 1110100 10101100 10110010 10101010 10111110 10101101 01100111 010101010 1110100 10111010 1011101 11101100 1011111 1110111 1011101 0101001010 1110100 11111110 11111110 10101110 11101010 1111101 11110101 11111111 0011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; wi', mid are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word zome is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word watervalls at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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