This is an analysis of the poem The Lake Isle that begins with:
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaaXXXaaXcX AbXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001001 1101110110100111 0010110 11100101 10110100 101 101010 11001110 10101 1110 1010010010111010 101110101101 1111011001001 110100111 1011010010 101010010 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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