This is an analysis of the poem Fragment that begins with:

Walking by moonlight on the golden margin
That binds the silver sea, I fell to thinking... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcXdeXfgXhideXejiejeiaXaeXXgfdgXcbjh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111101010 11010111010 0101100011 11010111100 1011010101 01010100110 1101011111 011101110110 0111001101 101111011010 1101010101 1011010101 0111010100 01110101101 1101010101 10110101010 0111110101 0011010101 011011010001 1111101101 0011110101 1101011101 1100111111 0111000101 1001010101 010101110010 11011111010 1101011101 1111010111 01010101011 1011111110 0111110101 1111110101 01011101110 1100010101 1100111101 1100110101 1111010101 1001010011 11010100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1800
  • Average number of words per stanza: 319
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; it, and, one, some are repeated.

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  • summary of Fragment;
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