This is an analysis of the poem The Child Of The Islands - Opening that begins with:
I.
OF all the joys that brighten suffering earth, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbccacadX acacceceeX fgfgehehhX ciciijijja chchhahaaa cfcffifiiX ckckkckccX acacckckkX jcjccacaXh alallglgga XfeffjfjjX mcmcceceeX cbcbXabaaX kekeehehhX hihiikikkX eieiijijjX lnlnnknkkX cXciiaiadX jcjccccccX opoppepeeX lalaaqaqqX pcpcclcllX ififfjfjjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 01011101001 1101010111 1111011101 1101110101 0101001101 1011000101 1101111111 1101110101 11010101100 1 0101110101 0111010011 1011010101 11011010101 1011001101 1011010001 010100100101 11010011111 101101010111 1 0101011101 01110001010 1111011101 01011111010 1111010101 1011010111 1101000101 1011011101 110101010101 1 11011010101 1101011101 1110010111 1001000101 100111011 1111011101 1111010101 0011010100 110111110101 1 0101011101 1101010101 1011010101 1101011111 0101011100 1001010101 1001010101 1001100101 1101001010101 1 1001001101 1101110101 1111110111 10001000101 1101111101 1111110111 1111010111 0101010001 110101110011 1 1101100101 1001010101 10001010111 1011000101 1001010111 1101110011 1111101101 1001011001 101101010111 1 1101110001 01010011111 01011110101 1001000101 10100110111 1111011101 1101100101 11100010011 110101110111 1 1111101111 1001011101 11011111111 1101011101 0111110111 1111110111 1101110101 1101001101 111101110101 1 10110010001 1111010101 0011110011 0101000101 1011011111 110011101010 1101010111 01111101010 1101010111010 1 1001110110 11010100101 0101110001 11001110101 0101010111 1101110001 1101000111 1111010101 000101010101 1 11001010101 1011000100 1111010101 11110101111 10111111001 0101010101 0101000101 01010011101 110101010001 1 1101010101 0101010101 1101010111 1001010101 10001010101 1101011101 01000101001 0101010101 1100010110001 1 01010001001 01010100111 0101110111 10011110111 1111001101 1101110101 0101011101 1111110101 101001010001 1 1101010101 0101010001 11010011001 1101010101 1111010001 1111011101 1101010101 1011110101 111111011101 1 1001001101 0001010101 0100010001 1101010111 0101010111 1011011101 0101010101 11110100100 110101010101 1 1001000101 01001001101 1110110101 1101010011 0111010101 11010111010 1111110101 1111011110 11011011101010 1 1101010001 1101010101 1101010111 1011000101 1111110111 11101101001 1111010101 0101000111 111101110100 1 1111110101 10110101001 110010101010 1001010101 10111100001 1101001111 01110011001 10011000101 010001110101 1 11110100101 1001000101 1101010101 1101011101 1111110101 0100010101 1100010101 11001010101 110101010111 1 1111010111 1101010101 1101010111 1101001101 1011000101 1011011101 1101010010 11000010101 1111100110111 1 1111011101 010001000101 1101011101 0101010011 1011010101 01010011101 0101010101 1101010101 1101001110101 1 1101110101 1001110101 1101111011 11010100111 1011010101 00010010101 01010100101 1011110111 101101111101 1 1101011100 1101110001 1001011101 11011010101 01101010111 0111010011 11001010101 110010101001 011101010000 1 1001010100 1101001111 1101111111 1101001111 0101111111 0101011101 1011011101 0001010111 110111110101 1 0111010101 10010010101 11010100101 0011010101 1101110101 11010101001 1011111110 1011000101 110101011101 1 1100110101 0111010111 1111010101 1111010011 01111111001 1001001101 10110001001 1101010101 1111001110001
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 270
- 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; and, their, no, we, of, from, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, no, the, those, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase blest connects the lines.
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- summary of The Child Of The Islands - Opening;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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