This is an analysis of the poem Labour — Capital — Land that begins with:

IN that rich Archipelago of sea
With fiery hills, thick woods wherein the mias... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbccbdaXeefXdXXaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111001101 01001110101 1001011111 1100011111 1111011111 1001011101 100111100101 0011110101 1111010101 1111110111 0001100011 01011100010 1101000101 1110010101 1101011100 1001011101 0101110110 01010011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 770
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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 is repeated.

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