This is an analysis of the poem The Pleasures Of Amibition : Or, Une Reverie A La Corse, 1804. On An Imperial Coronation By Hector Macneill that begins with:
The four winds roar round Europe's shores,
Deep growled the threat'ning thunder!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefe cegehXda cbibcfjf kjajbXlg ifcfgfXf hfgfjfhX XkjkXeme ifaaakka hXjfmXhX deXegbdb iXaXlbfX hXfkcXfb cfjfibib afffhfjX hnhnhXia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111101 1101010 100110001 11001010 01110111 1111110 01010101 1101110 00110101 0101010 01011101 1101110 01111101 1101110 11010101 1111010 10011101 1101010 11111101 1111010 11011101 0101010 111011011 1110010 01110111 1111010 01011101 1110010 1111001010 0101110 11111111 1101101 11111101 11000010 11110101 0101010 110110001 1101010 11011101 1101010 01010101 0101010 01010101 0111010 01010101 1101010 01011001 1101100 11111111 01110100 11111101 11110100 11110111 0101010 11011001 1111010 11011101 1101110 11110101 1101010 11011111 11001111 111111001 1111110 11011101 1101100 11111111 1101010 110011111 1101010 01011101 1111010 11111111 1011110 11011110 1111010 11111101 1111010 11110101 01010010 11111101 1101100 01111111 1111100 010111001 1101110 11011101 1101010 11111111 1101100 11111101 1111111 11111011 11010110 01111101 1110010 11111101 1011010 11100101 1111010 11111101 1101010 11111001 1111010 11111111 0111110 11111101 0101010 11111111 0101010 10011101 0111010 11010101 1111110 11100111 1111010 11111111 11010100 11111101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, my, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, not are repeated.
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