This is an analysis of the poem In The Bay that begins with:
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Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbbXaaddaX accacX aeeaeX ffggfX hiihhX ggjjXX kkdbkX lXmmXX kkhXha bbffbX aaeeaX eecceX hhXbhX aaccaX fXiffX faaffX fffffX kkakaX cckkkX annaaX ffaafX eooeoX ccgggX kkekeX llaaaX cckckX eecceX ceeceX ccbbcX oeeeoX offooX ccaacX jeejeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0101011101 11010010101 01010010011 0101011101 0101000101 11111001110 0101100101 1001110111 101010111110 111101010010 1101111111 01010111100 0101110110 100110000001 01011110101 01111010111 0110011001 01011111101 1111000101 1111111001 1001111111 1110011001 1001110001 0101010101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010111 10111011101 1111000111 11110111010 11010100101 111101101 0111110101 01001010011 01011110101 111111110010 0111011101 11010101001 0011011111 1111110101 0101111000 11110011010 0101111111 1001010011 1001010110 1101010101 10011010101 11110001111 01110111101 1101000100 0101110101 10111111011 0101011000 01010010101 0101011111 1111011101 0101110111 111111110010 10001000111 11011111111 1101110111 01010101101 01011100101 10001011101 11001010111 01100111010 1101110101 0110000111 110101011011 0111010101 1111011101 111111110100 0101110101 0101110111 1111110101 1101111111 1111001111 11110001010 110101101111 100111111101 01111111000 1111111111 1110111111 11010101110 1001010101 1111000111 1111110111 101100111011 0111000100 11111101010 1111000111 0101010101 01010100101 1111000101 11110000111 110111001110 1001110111 1111110111 1101011101 0111110101 11110100111 01111001010 1101010111 1101110101 1111001111 010111100111 0101010111 11011100010 0111110101 1101010101 1111110110 11001110111 1111011101 1111110001 11110101011 10111110101 0101010101 0110110111 1101010111 010110111100 10110110110 1100111101 1011110111 11110110111 11010011101 111111110100 1001010111 11010100101 11111100101 110111111011 11111100111 11011111010 1111001111 0111011101 11011110101 1101111100 0111010001 10110111110 01110100101 01011101001 1101010101 01101000101 10110101001 10110111110 1111010111 00110101001 1111110101 010010100111 111100111011 110111001010 11110110111 11111101101 1111011101 11010110101 1111110111 1101110100100 1101110111 1011011101 10010101001 0100100111001 1101010101 11010111110 11111111001 0101100101 1001010101 1101110111 1101110101 1100111111100 1111011101 1101010100 110101111011 111110110001 101010111101 1111010110 10101111111 0101011111 10101111111 0101011111 11010010111 110101001010 1101111011 01110101001 1111000111 1111001101 1101110101 011111010000 1110101111 11110010111 11110011101 1101011111 0111001101 11111111110 1111111111 0111010101 1101011111 1111100111 1101010111 1110111001110 11001110111 010011101001 1101110101 0101110101 011111001001 101011111011 1101011111 01011100101 11010011111 0111011111 1111010111 110101110100 11010110010 1111010011 1101111011 1111101111 0111111001 011100111010 0101010111 101101100111 1111111111 11111001111 1111110101 11110101110 1101110111 100110001001 1111010101 01010110101 1101011111 10110111010 1111011101 1111011001 11011100101 01001111111 01110111011 11110111110 1111111111 1111111111 1111000111 1111011001 1111111011 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 264
- 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, nor, past, life, that, this, its, all, as, thy, like, her, what, may, to, more, your, ye, rise, set are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, some, like, whose, thou, ye are repeated.
The author used the same words hath, and, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase me connects the lines.
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