This is an analysis of the poem Cape Breton that begins with:
Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford,
the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXacdeXfcg eahgfegbX geXeeaaihhfeeeadc eXcXicdXXXei ceXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,9,17,12,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011010010110 010011010101111 0110011 010010101011111 1011100111010 011011000101 1110000111001 01010010110 1010100110001010 1011010111 11110101 11101010101 10110000101 01110110 010101100011 11011101 11010010101 0111110111101 1111110 110010001 11010010111 011101010001 011100101001 1010100110110 1011100101011 010110101000101 111101 0101010010 110011101001010010 010101001000100 11101 111101000 1100111001 1100110100110 1010001011111 1110111001101 010100111011010 1001000101110 0111111 011101011110 101010001 1110100110011111 1011011010110001110 10 010011110111 10111010 00110110011010 011011000111 11001111101111 1010001000010010 000100101010 011110011011 01110 01010001 11010100011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 55
- 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; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines abandoned is repeated).
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- summary of Cape Breton;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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