This is an analysis of the poem The Fountain that begins with:

Fountain, that springest on this grassy slope,
Thy quick cool murmur mingles pleasantly,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaedfgh ijjkldahjh llgkXagkm nkopqhgdll hmjgjkXmajgkqmhkjkrjjXgpm hsgddjkkokhk kdkltkggkjkhkjcrlorksgt dasqsflhokgsfimhbteXtXlXljqjqdnjkohklfa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,9,10,25,12,23,39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101 1111010100 0011010001 0110010111 1101111101 0011110101 1100010101 0100110101 1111010111 1001110111 0101010101 1101110101 1111010011 1111001001 1101010111 0101001001 1001000111 0100110011 0101000101 1100111101 1111011101 1100111101 011111001011 0101001101 1101010001 01010010111 1001010101 0101000101 110111001 11110111001 0100110101 0101101101 10011101010 0100001101 0111110111 01001100111 1101010111 0101010110 1111111101 1111001101 0101011111 1101110101 1001010101 010010010101 1100011001 1100111100 1101111111 1101010101 0101010101 0101110111 1011000111 1101111101 11010111001 1101010111 1001110100 1101010101 1011010101 1101010111 1101111101 1001110111 01010011110 1001111101 11010101110 1101000101 1101010101 0111011101 1011010101 1101011001 01110100101 1001110111 0100110101 0111010101 11011100101 1100010101 0100111011 1100110011 1100111101 100011100101 1111000101 0101011101 0111000101 1101110101 10001110001 01011101110 0101110101 0111111101 0101110101 1101010011 1001101000010 0101110001 0111010101 1111010001 10111100101 1111110011 01010110011 1000110111 1111001101 1101011101 10010010011 1111111101 1111010001 1101010001 0101110111 010100100001 0101110101 0111010111 1011011101 0001010101 1111010001 01001010111 1111110101 0101101111 1111110111 1111000101 1011011111 1101111100 1101110101 1000110101 1101010101 1101000101 1001001101 1100010101 0111011111 0101010011 1111010111 0101111101 1101111101 0101011111 1101010101 1101010101 0101101111 1001000001 0101011101 0101011111 10001011101 1001010111 1110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 673
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • 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; her, of, and, i, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Fountain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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