This is an analysis of the poem Promontory that begins with:
Golden dawn and shivering evening find our brig lying by opposite
this villa and its dependencies which form a promontory ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbccbdcXeeeXccXaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110010111101100 0101001001101000 101011001010000 110110001110100 1010110010010 010100101010 110100101011010 10101010100010010 101000101100010101010 10001011010 110110101001001 110001001101001101010 1111111110100111 1010001000011001010101000 0100010011011101100 101010010010101110 11000100010010101 100101101000001 110010000001001001 0101110000010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1237
- Average number of words per stanza: 200
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Promontory;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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