This is an analysis of the poem By The Grey Gulf-Water that begins with:

Far to the Northward there lies a land,
A wonderful land that the winds blow over, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaXaXcbcbadadeXebdbdb fbfbgbgbcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101101 01001101110 111101101 0101101010 011100111 1101011110 10100100101 00111011010 111101101 0101101010 100110101 10101101110 101101111 1001001010 100111101 101100110 110110101 1011011100 10011101 1001001010 100111111 1101111110 100110111 00111101110 1010101111 00101101110 10100100101 001001101110 110111111 0111011010 110100101 00101101110 1100100111 010111110 101100111 111101101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 782
  • Average number of words per stanza: 146
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word water at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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