This is an analysis of the poem The Boy Columbus that begins with:
And he had mused on lands each bird,
That winged from realms of Falerina,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaX Xbccb dbddb cXccX aeXae dfddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 110101000 101000101 00111111 111100010 11011110 110101110 01011101 11010101 100101010 11000111 0101001110 11010101 11011111 010101010 11011101 010101110 11110111 11010111 11011101 110011001 010100010 11110100 01001101 110011110 11011001 111101010 01011011 11010101 011100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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