This is an analysis of the poem The Emigrants: Book I that begins with:

Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of
Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX bcdeccffbebccghbicicchcgbjciccigfcccbbkgclXcemnbcabbcoigcdlfncncbicXXpacggjqdoiogiaibcofpdraXhegpoidiisikgbtotcfgijpriiieibccdeocXchcXsebegogeiXeidcusrjipgbifcibciclgdhigXcbicciehgclggreXdngfplcuboadogggirarrckgebupcgrrcgciidgipicoesdipglglcvrdohelckX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,382,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110100100010 100010101000101 10010101001 1011010101 1101110101 1011110101 10100010101 0011100101 0011010101 0111010101 11010101001 1100111101 1101010111 1011011001 1111010100 110011011010 1101010101 1101111101 101111101 1101110101 1111000101 0101010111 0111011101 1100010111 110010010101 1011010101 100001100101 11010101110 1100010101 0101111101 0101011101 01010010111 0101010101 1010110101 1011111101 1101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1110011011 01010100101 0101010101 101010011010 10110010101 110111100100 111111011000 0011111101 1001111111 0111001011 0101110101 1111011110 01011101010 1101110111 01011010001 1011111101 1011010001 00110111010 1111111101 0101010111 1101011101 1101110101 1101010100 1100110111 1101110101 11111100010 0011110111 1101100101 1001011101 110110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011000 1101010101 1011110101 1111100101 0011010101 1101110111 11010101010 1111010101 1101010101 1101011111 10111101001 11010101001 11110100101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010001 1100111111 0110010011 1100010111 010100010101 1101110111 11111100101 1001010101 0101010101 11010101011 0101000101 0101110101 1100010101 1011011101 0101010101 0101011101 11010011001 0100010011 0100010001 10111000111 1101011101 1101010001 0111010101 10011010111 1110001111 01010000111 0101100101 1100011101 1001010111 0101010111 1001010101 01010001010 111110001 0011000111 0111000001 1001111111 1101110101 0101010001 0111011011 0111001011 01101010101 0100110101 0111110101 0101011101 1011110101 11010100101 0111010100 10011011010 1011001111 01010010101 01010111100 1101110101 010101110010 01010101001 1110010101 10110111010 0111011101 01110110001 11110011101 0101010011 00011011100 1101111101 0100010101 10011111001 1111010101 111011001 1111011101 1101101111 11110111010 0100111101 1101001101 1111011111 0101011111 1011111111 0001010111 1101010101 0111010101 1111111101 1011010101 1101110101 0100110011 01011100100 1011001010010 01010010001 0101010111 10101011101 0101000101 1101110100 1001110111 01101011101 0100011111 1101010101 0101010111 11010110101 1101010011 0011001101 101010011101 1101010100 1001010100 1011000101 1001010001 1101010101 0111011011 1101011101 1001011001 011100101001 11000110101 0111110101 11001010101 1101010100 1101010101 1001010101 01001010101 0101011110 11010011111 01011010001 1011010101 0101010111 0101010101 1011010101 0111010101 1101011101 1101011101 0101000101 1101010001 1101110101 1101010101 1000010001 0111010001 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1000010101 0011011101 0110001101 0101110101 0101010100 1101010101 1111010001 1101010101 10110100111 0011010101 1011011101 0101110101 1101001101 1101010101 1011010101 01010011001 1101110101 1111000101 1111010001 01110010101 1001010100 1111010111 1101010100 11010110101 11010100110 10010100010 110101010101 00010101010 101010000101 1001010101 1101110100 0011000101 0101000101 1101010101 0111100011 01000101010 0100100101 10110001001 10110110010 0101110101 11010100010 1111110111 01100111111 1101010101 01001011101 0100110101 1101010111 11010010001 0101011101 1100010101 1111010101 0101000101 1101110101 11010010101 0100011101 1101011001 1111110101 0101010101 01001101001 011100110011 110010010101 11010100010 10010010111 0100010111 1101110101 1101010101 11010111001 1101000101 11010010111 1011110101 10010010101 1001010101 11010111001 0101011101 0101010111 11001010111 0111010001 1111010111 1101010011 11010010101 10111011101 0101010101 01100011001 1101010101 0101010101 1101011001 1101011101 1011010001 11110010001 01010100101 0101110101 0101000111 01110011010 1101000111 1101010101 1101001101 1010000101 11010101000 1111010100 0101010101 0100100001 10011111010 0111010111 1101111101 01010101001 1101001111 0101010111 0111110101 1011010111 0101010111 0101111101 11010100001 1101011101 1101010101 1001010111 11001100111 0101010101 0111010111 1101010101 1111000101 11011010010 1101111101 1001011101 0101110100 100010101001 1101010101 0101110101 1001011101 010100101101 00101010101 1100110101 01001010100 01010010101 0101010011 1101110101 10011001001 1111111111 0001010101 1100010111 0101010101 01110010001 11110010110 1111011101 0101010101 1101110001 0101010001 0111111101 1111010111 1101010001 1101110001 0101010011 0111010101 11010110110 1011011101 1111110101 0101000101 01001000111 01110100111 0101010111 10110001010 1101010111 01010101001 01000010101 1101011101 11110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1416
  • Amount of lines: 385
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in, for, and, to, his, still, he, of, ye, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, the, ye are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Emigrants: Book I;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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