This is an analysis of the poem Recollection that begins with:
Awawe-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping
A silken mantle o'er its jagged sides;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gbgb cfcf Xhah adXd hfhcbhXh fXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110011110 0101010011 110010101010 1111010101 011101100010 0101110101 01100101010 0101011101 01100100110 1001010101 01010111110 1001100101 01010101010 0101010111 110100101010 01010010101 11110101110 1001000101 10110111110 0111011101 11011100110 0111011101 01011100110 1110010101 01010101110 1111001111 10110101110 0101010101 01111111110 101101001001 11010101110 0111110100 11110101110 1011010101 01010111010 1101110111 11000111011 1011011100 10001111011 011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; of, and, world are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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