This is an analysis of the poem Crusoe in England that begins with:

A new volcano has erupted,
the papers say, and last week I was reading ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefdgXh ijfkclmfahhfnffhdh dXbkoohaXikdpfaddihbfhahqe ehrkXXXmrj cddbibdrkkfahkqmahXkgrffe mbkkafdhal sfhgqqifcffafdrqnXrfrjlkfadhj anfhpfXfXpeXe hjbkfcadfae m afcsadnmkdqhlggdc ijffXjilgffo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,18,26,10,25,10,29,13,11,1,17,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 010101010 01011111110 1111110101 11010111001 1101101100 100100100 1110010101 1101111101 100101100 1001110101 111101 10001010111 0011001 0101111 110110100101 11010101 1011001111 11101001 1101010111 01010 101101010 11010111 011100 10110101010 0100101010 1011001101 1001100101 110101 110100 01011101000 11010111 01010111 0101 1110111 11010111 010100111 101100 11110011001 110101001 0101010101 111111101 00110 01001101000 111111 0101010101 1111001 101010111 101110101010 11011101010 0111 11010001010 1000100111 0101010011 1001111100 110110110 10101010111 1100110111 01011100010 11010111110 1101110101 01110011000 1001011111 1001011100101 1011011111 0110010111 1001 1111001101 0101110101 111011001 0011110101 1001010001 010101 11110101 11010 1111010100 1111010011 11011111001 1101111101 11111111 01010101 111011 111111 1101010111 1101110101 111111011 11010101 0100110100 1101010101 010000100 01110101 1101101010 1101010001 110101 010111 01001101 101011101 100110101 10011110 11111101 010101111 01011001 11111111 11011101 1111111 1111111 00111101 010010010001 10010101 110100010 1111 11011111110 1011001101 1111110101 11101111 1101010101 11010 11011110010 1101101101 11010101 11111101 11011111 0101010101 10110101010 11110001010 1111010111 01110101 10010100 11010101011 1001011101 111101010 1101111101 11001010100 1010111 1101010 1001011000 010101010 1111000100 0101011101 111100101000 1101000110 11010100 111111010 0100110111 0101110111 1111 11111101 010110010 110010111 11011111 11010101 1100110101 10011101010 1111111111 111101010 1101111101 11110011 1101110011 110101 01110111 0101010010 011101 01001010101 01110001 10010101 11111111 01010101 010111010 10111111 010111001 11110111 010010110 110100 010101001 1101010 111001 0100111101 0100010111 01011101 11011101 11100111 11111111010 10100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 569
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 182
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; glittering, of, and, i, one, shriek, baa, islands, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pity, the, baa, i'd, friday, it are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines giant, rollers are repeated).

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