This is an analysis of the poem The Indian Upon God that begins with:
I PASSED along the water's edge below the humid trees,
My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceeaaddddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101010101 11010101010111 11010111110101 11010101110101 1101010110101 11010101111111 01010101110101 01100101011001 11010101110101 11011100110101 111001011101001 01010101010101 01010101011101 10011111010001 10010111111111 01011111010111 11010101110111 11011101111101 10010111110101 010101110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1162
- Average number of words per stanza: 228
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, his, he, made are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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