This is an analysis of the poem The Harbour Of The Past that begins with:
Watched over by insuperable peaks,
Beneath a leaden sky and copper sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba XccdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110110001 0101011101 0101010101 1101011101 0111010101 1101001101 0100010101 1111000111 011101010010 1111010101 1100110101 0101010101 11011100100 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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- summary of The Harbour Of The Past;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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