This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue that begins with:

Between the wave-ridge and the strand
I let you forth in sight of land,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbabacc ddeededff ggddgdghh iiffifiee ddjjdjdkh XXllmlmXd ddindndll ccooXocXg bbhhbhbdd ppccpcphh aaddadacc gXppgpgll ddbbdbdbb hhpphphcc ddbbdbddd ppqqpqpff aaXbabadd iiaanaibb bXllblbcc rroororaa lldXldlaX ccddcdcbb mmjjmjmdd hkaXhahoo bbbbbbbhh bbddb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 11110101 11011111 11010101 11110111 1111000111 11110101 10010111 10010111 110100111 11011101 11110101 11110101 11011011 110100100 110100111 11111111 01010101 11111111 11111111 00011111 11011101 11010001 11010011 110010011 01010110 11111101 11010111 100111001 11110111 11110101 11011101 11110111 01011111 10010111 11110111 11111111 11111101 11110011 11111101 10110111 010011001 00111111 01111100 110110111 11001100 110111000 011100111 10111101 01111101 111100100 11011101 110100111 11010011 111110111 11110111 11011001 110110010 11110111 111101110 11110101 11111111 10101001111 101101110 101101110 10011100 00110111 010101100 01010101 0101010010 010111100 110100111 111111010 110011010 11111011 01010101 011011110 11010101 1101001010 01010011 11110001 010101011 10111101 10111111 11011101 10111111 10110101 11110111 10110101 10110111 11010100 01011111 010010100 01100101 111100101 11111101 011100111 11111111 10011101 11011011 100111011 11110101 11111111 10110111 10110111 1001101111 11011101 11011111 10111111 111100101 01110001 10110001 01111111 11011011 110001011 110011101 11010101 00110111 111100001 111111001 11110111 1100011001 01010111 101101001 10110111 010010111 11010101 11100101 01010111 10110101 11111111 11011111 00111101 11010101 11000101 11011101 11111101 10110111 100110101 01010011 101101111 01011101 01011101 11010001 11010111 11011011 111100110 11111111 11110111 10110111 110100101 10010111 11010111 11011101 01110101 11011111 01000101 10111110 11000111 11010001 01011001 11010101 11010111 110011000 11110111 11111101 11011111 11111111 01010100 110100111 10010101 11111111 11010001 110001001 10110101 10111101 10110101 111100101 11010101 11110101 11110111 11010101 110111001 11101000 10011101 10011101 11110101 01110110 11111000 11011101 01010101 0110001 11110101 11110111 01010101 11010100 01110111 11111101 101111101 010011100 11010100 100011101 01001101 110101001 11110100 11100101 11010001 11110111 01110100 01000101 111101010 01011001 11110111 1100101111 11010011 11010001 11111111 11100101 100110011 111011001 110110111 01010111 01011011 11111111 11110111 10110111 0101001101 01010011 01100101 10111101 11111101 11110111 11111101 11110111 10110011 01101101 10010110 01011011 11100101 01010101 01110100 00111111 01011001 10110111 01001101 01000111 11011110 111101111 01011111 101010110 11011011 11111111 11111101 010101100 01010001 11110100 10111101 10111101 111100101 1011101001 11110001 11110101 1011100100 10110111 01011101 010011010 01011101 1100100101 11011100 110100101 11111111 10111110 11110111 01110111 01111111 11110011 11100101 10111111 11011101 110110111 01110011 01011100 11111111 11001011 11010101 111001101 01010101 01011101 11110111 11010111 01000101 11011111 110101001 1101001001 01111101 110111101 11010101 11010011 101100101 11011111 111100101 010100101 11010101 11110111 10110111 111000111 10110101 100010111 01010001 00111100 11010101 001011101 110010111 11110101 11110111 10010101 11111111 01110111 10110101 01010111 011100111 11010101 11110111 11100111 10110101 11010111 11011111 11011111 0111011010 11010011 11111101 110101100 01110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 333
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, to, of, one, with, their, hath, what, in, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, out, nor, one, a, the, still, sees, only, men, beyond are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Epilogue;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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