This is an analysis of the poem The Island that begins with:
Does the wind sing in your ears at night, in the town,
Rattling the windows and doors of the cheap-built place? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedefgfg dhdhiaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101111001 1000101100111 1110110110111 1110110111111 110010101101 11110111001 11011101101 01010111011001 111110111001 110110100101 111110110101 1100111101011 1111110011010 1010100110111 10100011001010 101110100111 101110110111 101101001001 10110100101 11110011101 1111111001001 0010110110111 111101111001 010111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, where, i, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words do, i, where 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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