The Island: Canto I. by George Gordon Byron: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Island: Canto I. that begins with:

I.
The morning watch was come; the vessel lay ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbccddaaeeffddaXffcXggccffgghhiiXhhhhhhhjjhhbbkkhh Xffccffhhllmknn XllXhkkhhffXcXohh aapqqffaahhddccgg ajjXXjjccApggfrddmmjjjjaaddhh Xbbrrmmggbbaaeehh XcckkaplXddaalXggddcccqgXrrgg Xiimmssdd ssddddcceettffffXmddffeeXkddmmccaaoommffmmccmmqcAaggmmjjrrii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,15,17,17,29,17,29,9,60,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1 0101110101 0111010101 0101010101 0101110101 0100110101 01011101101 0101110101 0101000101 0101110001 1111000101 0101010101 1111011001 0101010101 10110001001 0101010101 1111010001 1 1 0101010101 0101110111 0100110101 01010101010 01110001001 0111010101 0111010111 1111010001 01011110101 1101110101 1111011101 1100110101 1011011101 1111011101 11100000101 01110000101 01011101100 0101011111 011010100101 0101010101 0111011101 0101110101 0111110101 0101101101 0101111101 01001011111 1101010101 01000010001 1111010111 1100010001 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101 0101011101 1 0111010101 0101010011 1001110101 1101010111 11110101111 0111011101 11001111101 001001110101 1101011111 0100010101 1110010101 0111011101 1111010101 0111010101 1 0111010101 1101001101 11111111000 1101110101 0111010101 0101000101 10110101001 10110101011 0101010111 01110010101 11001101010 1111111101 1101001101 0101011101 1111111101 1110010001 1 1101110101 1111010100 00110001010 010000100110 01010010101 0011011111 0101110101 1100011101 1101010101 0111010001 1101011111 1101010001 0101000101 0111111111 11110010001 0101010001 1 1101010111 0101010001 110001001101 1101010101 1011011101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1011000101 1111010100 0101010101 0101010101 01001010101 01100101101 11111101110 010111001010 11101010101 01110101001 0110110111 1011111101 1111110111 11010101101 11110101101 1111011101 1111001101 11110110101 1101011101 1100010001 1 0101000101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 11010100100 1101000101 1011110111 0101001101 0111000101 0101010001 1111010111 1101010111 0101010001 110100100011 1101110001 1 1111010101 1101000101 0101100101 1011011101 1011000101 1101010100 101100011 1110011101 11010100101 1101010101 1101011101 0111010001 1100010101 0110110101 11101010111 0111010101 0110111111 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 11010101010 01001111101 1111110101 1111110001 0101100101 1011000111 1101010111 1 0101110101 0111110001 1101010101 11110100101 01010100101 1011100111 1101010101 1111110101 1111011101 1101011101 1101011101 11010101101 01010100101 1001000100 0111011101 11101011111 01001110001 1111101101 0101110101 0111010001 00101001101 1101010111 0111011101 0011000101 1001010101 01010111001 0101010101 1110010001 0101010111 0111010101 1100110001 0111011101 1 1100111101 11000011101 1100010111 1101011101 0111010101 1101011101 11001010101 1101110101 1101010101 0101111101 1011010101 0111110101 1101010101 1101010101 1110010101 0101110111 0101010001 1101010101 0101010101 1101010011 0100010110 1001010101 1011000101 1101010101 01011010101 0101010101 0101010101 1011110101 11010100101 1111011101 1111001101 1101010101 1111010001 11110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1053
  • Average number of words per stanza: 185
  • Amount of lines: 245
  • 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; her, of, their, awake, thy, to, and, ', our, his, that, away are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their, awake, and, our, once are repeated.

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