This is an analysis of the poem On The Downs that begins with:
A faint sea without wind or sun;
A sky like flameless vapour dun;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aababb aacacd eefeff gghghh aaiaii iXiiii jjkXkk kkgkgg iiiiii iigigg hhahXa kkikXi gXlXll iiliXl iXiiXi mmgmgg cclcll ccaXaX iininn ccXdii aacadc Xknknn oojojj ppipii jjkjkk Xqgqgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01101111 011100101 01011011 11110101 101101 11001 11011001 11011101 00111101 10011111 111101 0111 01011001 10111011 11111111 11110111 110011 0111 11111111 01011101 10011101 01010111 101111 1101 10011011 11110111 11111101 11010101 111101 1111 101101111 1110001100 101101011 01101111 110101 0101 11011101 11011101 010111001 01110100 101101 1111 11011101 11010111 01100001 1010010001 110101 1101 11111101 11011111 10110111 11110111 100101 0101 10111101 11010111 01110000 111101101 110001 1111 110011101 01010001 11010111 10110101 111100 1111 11110101 11010011 110111011 11110111 1111010 11011 11110111 110111010 11111101 10101001000 110011 1111 11011101 110101011 11111111 11001001 110100 1111 11010111 01010111 11010101 11110111 0101100 1111 11111101 11011101 10100111 11110111 010101 1101 01100101 11111111 11111101 11111101 111111 1111 01010111 01011111 01011111 001010101 101111 01010 11110101 11010011 111011001 11010101 111111 1101 10111101 10011101 001101100 10111111 101111 1101 010000101 011101111 00111111 001101001 011111 1111 1101010 11010111 10101111 10111111 10101101 1101 111111010 11100010 11111111 110111010 110111 1111 10110111 10010111 11111111 01110111 110101 0111 101011111 10110101 11011001 01110101 010111 1101 10010101 11010111 01010011 11011111 010101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 156
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, and, as, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, scarce, and, nor, with, out, in, one are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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