This is an analysis of the poem The Adventurer that begins with:
THE land of gold was far away,
The sea a challenge roared between; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe gaXg abba aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01010101 11111111 11100101 11010001 01000111 01011101 010111001 11110001 101111010 110101010 01111101 10011111 11110001 11011101 11011101 11010001 11111111 11110101 110011111 11110111 011111111 11111111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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