This is an analysis of the poem The Child Of The Islands - Conclusion that begins with:

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MY lay is ended! closed the circling year, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbccdcddX bebeefeffX ghghhchXcX ididdidiia chchhjhjja kekeelellX Xlallalma X ceceenennX oeoeehehho lflffifiia XnibbpbppX cocoononbX bebeececcX cccccbcXbX hXhddidiiX qeqeeoeooX eoeoohohhX iciccacaaX ciciipipXX oioiiiiiiX acmcciXiiX ceceeoeooX peXeelell
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,10,10,10,9,1,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11010101001 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1111001111 0111010011 1111110101 110001110101 1 1101010111 0101010101 1001010111 0011100101 1011101111 10010001010 1011010101 01000101010 0101010111010 1 1111110111 10101000101 1111010101 1011010101 1101010101 1111110101 1100110101 0101110101 110101111101 1 0101000111 1101011101 1101111111 0111110001 10010101101 11010100101 1111001111 0101111101 111101111101 1 10110011111 0101010011 1011001111 0111111111 0101001101 0101001101 1111010111 11010010111 1010101010101 1 1101010101 0101111101 0101010101 1100111101 1111110001 0101010101 1101010101 11011101001 1111010010111 1 1101011101 1111011101 1111110011 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1111000101 1111010100 111101111111 1 1111110101 1000100001 110110000111 1001011001 11110111001 10110101010 1101010101 11011101010 10110011110010 1 10110011101 110010100100 1001010101 1001001101 11010010101 1001011101 1011010100 1101011101 010110010101 1 11010110101 10111111010 1101010100 10010111010 01110101110 01010011101 01011100110 1001010101 110101110101 1 11010111010 0111001100 1001010111 01011011101 1001010101 1001010101 10010011011 1101110001 011101110001 1 1101110001 1110110011 1100101011 11010100111 10110001001 11010101010 1111100111 11011101010 0111001010001 1 1001011101 0101110101 1111010111 0101010100 1101010111 01010111001 1001010101 1101011101 111101010101 1 0110110101 1101010101 1101001111 1111001111 1111111101 1111111101 0110010101 01010111110 1100101110101 1 1111011111 1101110101 1001010011 0110110101 1111010111 10010101101 1101010101 1001100101 110101010101 1 0011011101 1111110101 1110010101 0110011101 0110010100 1111000101 1111010101 11011010101 1011010111001 1 0110110101 1001010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101111111 1101001111 1101110101 1111110011101 1 01110010111 1101010101 0101010101 1111110101 1111010100 0101011101 1100010101 1001111101 100101010001 1 0101010011 0111011101 0111010101 01010011111 0111111101 11110111011 1011010101 1101011101 1110001010100 1 1101010101 1101110101 1011100101 0111011111 1111110101 0101000101 11010111101 1011110101 101111110111 1 1001011101 1001010001 0100111100 1101010101 0111101101 1001000101 1101001011 1111010101 1111011101001 1 01101010100 1101110101 0101001101 0101010101 0011010101 1100110001 1100010101 1101010111 110101010101 1 1011010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111011101 1111110101 1101010101 1001110101 1001001101 1001011111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 230
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, one, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, this, by, and, one, none, our, what are repeated.

    The author used the same word true at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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