This is an analysis of the poem The Fight On The Island that begins with:
Thro' the roaring dark of the tempest
We had struggled the whole night long,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcb debefe agfgXg ffXfdf XhbhbhXfbfbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010 11100111 01111010 1111011 111001011 01101011 111101011 11101001 111010110 101001001 11001110 01111001 11001111 10100101 1011010 00110101 11111010 110110 11111010 1110101 11010010 0111001 001101010 1111101 111001110 1010111 001001110 100101 001101110 00111111 101001110 1111111 101111010 10111001 111001011 00101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, one, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we are 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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