This is an analysis of the poem The Lucayan's Song that begins with:
Hail, lonely shore! hail, desert cave!
To you, o'erjoyed, from men I fly,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede fXfg hchc dgdg baXa ijij cbcb kdkd bbbb ieie bbbb gggg eXeg lele bXbd didi dgdg dldl iXii dede gdgdXgbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 0110000111 11111101 111100111 110101101 11011101 01010101 01011001 11111101 11110111 11110101 010100111 11110101 11010110 11110101 11010101 11001101 11111101 10111101 11110101 10010111 01010101 110011101 11010101 11011111 010011111 11010110 11010111 11011111 1101100101 01110101 11110111 11010101 01010111 10111101 11011101 11011101 11111101 11010101 01111111 11011111 111111000 110111011 11111111 11010101 111101001 01010101 11101101 11011101 01010101 11010101 11010111 11010111 11110101 11110111 10110111 11011101 110101010 01011101 11010101 11110101 11110101 11011101 11010111 111010101 11110101 11010111 11110101 01010001 11111111 011100001 01011111 10011101 11110101 11010111 111101011 111110111 11011101 11110101 10010111 101010101 11011110 11011111 11011011 10011111 11010101 1111001001 01011101 01111101 101110111 110101001 11111101 11011101 01110101 10111111 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, thou, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words unknown, my are repeated.
The author used the same words my, yet, 't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Lucayan's Song;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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