This is an analysis of the poem Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World that begins with:
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eedd ffccbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111001001 0010010111 1010010111 1111001 010010101 10100101001 0110101101 11001101001 110111111 001111101011 0101101111 110011110010 1111111111 1100101111 111111101 010011101 1011101111101 11111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wonderful, and, you, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, you are repeated.
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