This is an analysis of the poem The Shadowy Waters: Introductory Lines that begins with:
I walked among the seven woods of Coole:
Shan-walla, where a willow-hordered pond... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdefegXeXhaaeebiedeeXgheciaXfeeehieeiiXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 11010111001 1001100101 1011010111 11010101110 1111010111 1111010111 11011110101 1111010111 1101001011 1111010101 1101011111 1101111011 1101110111 1101010101 10101010101 1111110101 1111010011 1110011111 11011101110 1010011100010 0101100101010 11100101010 11111101111 010011101001 101111010110 111110101111 11011111101 11110101101 0101011111 01011111110 1101010111 00110010111 1111101101 1101111001 0101011101 11110011111 10110110011 111001011010 10110110001 1110101111110 01110101100 110011010101 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1956
- Average number of words per stanza: 367
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; where, and, wood, seven, of, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wood, woods are repeated).
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