This is an analysis of the poem Dover To Munich that begins with:

Farewell, farewell! Before our prow
Leaps in white foam the noisy channel,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fgfX hXXi jgjg gkgk lclX Xebe Xbeb mmmm elXl knXn momo lclc cccmgggm Xbboccco jjjXjjjj ccccpppc mmXceeec cqhq ccec ihlh kmXm rXcm cfcf mjcj cbjb iqeq emem ghch knbi mdid kXrm kgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,8,8,8,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 101101010 01010111 1111001010 01110100 010001010 11011101 111101010 01111111 0101001010 110101001 010111110 1111011 111111010 11110101 0100011100 1110111 1011111 10010001 011000010 11011101 110101011 11110101 111100010 110010101 110101110 01011101 1001001110 11110001 110111010 10111101 111111100 011101110 0101111010 110011101 1100110010 1000101000 1001011111 1000101010 101111111 00100101110 101011111 10111101010 1101000101 1110001110 0010010101 1111111000 101011111 1111101010 101110101 1111111100 111010101 1111111110 101110001 111010010 0111110101 1111110010 101010101 1110001010 111110101 110101 110101 110101 111 111101 1010001 1010101 100 0100111 1111110 0101110 1001 10101110 10101010 11111010 111 1011110 1100101 110001 1010 1110101 101011 010101 1010 110101 011101 1011101 101 110111 10100101 0100101 011 110111 1011001 1111010 101 1101010 0101010 1101010 101 10101110 1000101 111010010 1111101 11111010 1111101 111010100 1010101 10101110 1011101 10101010 1010001 101110010 1010101 10001010 0100001 10111110 10111110 101010011 1010101 10101010 1010101 10111010 1010011 10101010 1010101 11001110 1010011 111010010 101111 10001110 1010101 10111010 1010001 10101010 1010101 10111010 11100111 10101010 1011001 11101010 11110001 10100010 1001101 10101010 1010101 10111010 1110100 11111010 1010001 101010010 1000101 101001110 10101100 11101110 10100001 10101110 1111101 1101011110 101100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 165
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; at, and, of, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

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