This is an analysis of the poem The Isle Of Portland that begins with:
The star-filled seas are smooth to-night
From France to England strown; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbcXacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 010101 110010101 010101 11010101 100111 10010111 111101 1110111 111111 110011101 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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