This is an analysis of the poem Insularum Ocelle that begins with:
Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover,
Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab babXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001101110 1100101101101 10110111101110 1 111100111001 1111001001010 1101000100101 111100101100010 11011101110111 101101001110010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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