This is an analysis of the poem The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman that begins with:

YOU waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play,
Though you glow and you glance, though you purr and you dart;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaBcbcBdbdB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111111011 111111111111 001101011101011 1110101001011 0101100111001 11011001101001 110010101001 1110101001011 11111011111101 01101011001101 1100110110101 1110101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, though, in are repeated.

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