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

OUT OF the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is,
Full of the sunset, and sad, if at all, with the fulness of joy,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccccdcdcdedeaaaXdfdfgfgfhbXbaeaeXiaiaeXeffffdjdjXjkjihihdldldidiamamhbXbheheiaiadkdkhchc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 92,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001111010110 1001111011001001 101100010110010010 100010110100010001 10010011010010001 1101101001001001 110010110010111110 00100111001001111 11001001111000010 110110110001001 100110111111010 1011000101101011 10010011011011010 1001001001101101 1001110010110110 101111111111101 110111111010010010 1111010010101101 0010111010111010110 11001101110011100 1110011111011010110 11011011111011001 1011010010111010010 11101111111101001 111110111110111110 1011111001001101 11111011110011110 1010111001001001 11010111011010010 110110011001001 11001101101101100 110110110110001 0010010010010010010 1001001101001001 1010010110010010010 101001011001011101 110011011011011100 11011101101011001 00100100110100010010 1100100111001100 111011111011111010 101101111001001 10100100010110010100 1011101001101001 101101111010010010 111111011011101 111100011101110010 1011011001101111 101101001001110010 10100111001001101 1001110110010011010 10111110111101001 11011011111111110 1001001101001011 1010110110110011010 101001011101111011 10100010011011010010 111011111101001001 1011011111110011010 11101001001011001 111010010011010010 001001001101001111 10111001110111010 1011101111101001 0011010011010010110 0011100111011011 10111001111011010 111001001001101001 1110111001110110 1011100111101011 101101111111010010 001001101011011001 110011110010010010 110100111011111 111011101110011000 1100110111101111 1110111110111011110 111100111001111 10110100010011011010 1111101010001001 10111011001110110 10100110111101000 111110111110110 1111011111101011 101001001111110010 11101111101001001 1011001011110110 100100111001111 11011001111111010 1001101011011111 111011111110111010 111001001111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6519
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1295
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, with, to, in, and, me, thy, that, as, i, it, her, us, our, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words blows, as, and, was, with, by are repeated.

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