This is an analysis of the poem Land-Locked that begins with:
Black lie the hills; swiftly doth daylight flee;
And, catching gleams of sunset's dying smile,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cddc edde fbbf ghhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101111 1101010101 10111100101 0101010001 1101011101 1101110101 1101110111 1011010101 11011101101 1011010111 1101010111 1111011101 1011010111 0100111101 10010010101 1100010111 0101110111 0101010101 1101110101 0111011111 1111010111 10010010111 0101010001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; o, and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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