This is an analysis of the poem To Portland that begins with:
To Portland.
(From A Centennial Poem)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b cdcdcece fgfgfbfb afafahah iXiXXXaX jbjbhfhfXfgfgdede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 00010010 11001101 11111101 110111101 1101111 110110101 111101 11010111 1111011 11011101 010101 11110100 011001 01110001 010101 11111001 010101 11010011 110101 11011101 110100 11011101 1101001 010010111 010101 11010101 111111 01010101 110110 110101001 11001001 11010101 010101 11110101 010101 11110111 1110111 11111101 100101 10100101 011101 11110001 110011 100011111 111101 11011101 010101 10010001 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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