This is an analysis of the poem Arrival At Santos that begins with:
Here is a coast; here is a harbor;
here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cded fgbg XhXh Xgfg cXiX bjgj fklk ialaXeala
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110010 11001010001001100 100001111110010 111011100100 0010111011110 10010010111 1110101110 0010100100101 1110001101001 101011011010 0111101000 100110010 10110010010 01110110011101 11011101001 111101011001 1011110111101 11010101001 1100111101010 111010100111 0100001010110 10001001101 11101100111 11101111 1111001100 00101010111 0100111101010 01110110011 11111110 010010011011 1111101101 110100110111 1110101101011 1101001101110 0100010011101 100110101001010 111101011101 10010110100100 101001111011 1110000100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; here, and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, and are repeated.
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