This is an analysis of the poem Resurrection that begins with:

Down at Devine's Hotel - where night and day
The noises of the harbour find their way,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddeeffbb gghhii jXaakkhhgXejXellffeeii XX cceehh ggggiieX iiaallhhXgbbii eeaammffgXaaffllhheXnnhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,6,22,2,6,8,14,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11100011111 0100010111 01010110110 10011101010 1001010101 1101010101 1101110001 110100100111 10111011010 11011101110 1101010111 0111010111 00010101010 111110010010 01100011111 0100010101 01011011101 01110001111 11100010111 0101010101 0101010101 1111110111 1001010111 1111010111 010 100 1101 1111011101 1101010111 1101110101 0101010111 1101111101 1110011101 1011010110 11011101110 11110 101 11110 1001010101 0111011101 1001010011 11110010101 11011110010 010010101110 0100011011 110110101 1001011111 0101010100 10110101010 11010111110 11111111110 10011101110 10111101001 1111011001 11101110111 1101111101 1111110111 01001011101 11111101001 01011110101 011011111010 011101110101 1101110101 1101101111 1111111101 10010111111 10100010101 1001011101 1111010101 0111010101 11110101100 110101010010 11001101010 01001111010 10110011111 0101010111 100111111010 100111111110 1111011111 1101100011 1111100101 1111110101 1001010111 1011011101 1001010001 01010101010 1001110111 1001010111 1011000111 11010000101 1101110101 1001010101 1111010110 1111110001 00110101110 01011111010 0101000101 1101111111 1101011101 101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 655
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 101
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, of, her are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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  • summary of Resurrection;
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