This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue: Cape Horn Days that begins with:
Thousands of years, before the ships came by,
He watched the uncounted sunsets flame and die,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddaXee ddffXbggh aaiihhjjaaXehX ddddkkll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,9,14,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1000010111 11011011111 1101010111 10001101001 1101000101 1011110111 11111110110 1011011010 1101100101 10001111101 11010101001 11110010100 1001110101 1011011101 1111010101 1101010001 1001010101 11010101101 1101011011100 100100111110 1001111111010 10111110110 1111 111101 01110101101 11111011010 11010101010 011100101001 11110110101 011110010101 1101010101 11010100101 10001010111 1011010111 1011010101 1101011111 1011111111 11010100001 10001011111 1001010101 0101010101 01110000111 1001010101 1011110111 1111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 527
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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