This is an analysis of the poem L'Ile Sainte Croix that begins with:
WITH tangled brushwood overgrown,
And here and there a lofty pine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bccb deed afXa ghhX ihhi X jkkj fjjf acca dggd dXcd affa hgXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11110101 01111101 11110111 11011111 110011101 110010111 11110101 11010101 11010111 11010101 01101100 11010101 01011001 11001010010 11010101 11010101 010101001 110001001 01011100 11010111 11010101 11010111 010000100 11 110101001 01011111 11111111 010101001 110111001 11011101 01010101 11110101 11010101 01010110 10000101 01010101 11010101 11010001 10010101 01010101 0111111001 0101010 11010101 11110101 11111101 11010101 11110001 010000101 11010101 11010101 01011100 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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