This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of The Summer Islands : Canto 1 that begins with:
What fruits they have, and how heaven smiles
Upon those late-discovered isles.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbcc ddeeffaaggggffaaddcceeffhhaagggffggeeiiXjXbbbhhXXeebbkkcchhggiihhjjbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,69,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111111101 01110101 1110010101 0101011111 11011101001 1111000111 0101011111 1101011101 1101110111 01001010111 11011011001 1011010001 010101010010 01010101110 0111110111 1011110101 11011100101 1111001101 0110001101 0111010101 1001101101 1101011101 1110010111 1111000101 0011010001 1001001101 0101111001 11110101001 1101010101 10010100111 0110010111 0101111101 1001101101 1101110101 0101010101 1101011111 1001011101 1011010101 1101011101 1011011101 1111110001 10101110111 0101110101 1111010111 1111011111 1101110001 1101110101 101110101100 0111100101 0101011101 0111101101 1011011100 0101010101 0101010110 1101010101 0101000101 1001110111 1111011101 1101110101 1001011101 101011011 100100011 1010010011 1111110101 1001011101 01001110101 0101010111 1101011111 1101110101 1111010101 1111110111 0011010001 11010010011 1111110101 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1090
- Average number of words per stanza: 195
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; as, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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