This is an analysis of the poem In The Harbour: Possibilities that begins with:
Where are the Poets, unto whom belong
The Olympian heights; whose singing shafts were sent... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXbbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 001001110101 1001110111 1001110001 1101010001 1101110111 1001011100 0111110111 0111110110 01110000111 1101010001 11001001101 1011110001 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of is repeated.
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