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

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How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabbcXbbacccddaaeedd Xeeffgghhiiddggeeeeddbbjjaabbeecc XggjjcXkklljj Xeemmjjddcceehh aeeddanophhbbooqqggbbeXjj aeeaXqqhhaajjppXaXjhh XbbXqooeXgglliicchheekkcceejjkkgghhkkrrgg XbbeebbqqeXXokkooddlliiXdaaaqqjjdd XaaqqXaddffoXooaX keeeeanooqqqqeeaaccrriilld
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,33,13,15,25,21,41,34,17,27,35,27,35,15,25,29,19,19,27,41,33,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
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1101010011 1111010111 1110010101 0011010101 11011011101 1011011101 11010001010 11011111110 0100110101 1100010111 01111101001 10011101001 11001111011 0111010101 1011010101 1101011001 1111010101 1111001101 10011011101 1100010101 1 1110110101 1101100100 01111111010 01010101010 0111010101 01100100001 11011101001 0101011111 0111010101 1101010101 10110111001 1101110111 1101011111 0101010101 0101010001 0100010100 1101110101 0101010101 0101001101 1111111011 0101110101 01011110011 1101110100 1101110101 1111010101 0011010101 11001100101 1100011101 1 10011101010 11110011010 1101010101 10111001001 1001100101 1111010101 1101110101 1011010101 0101110001 11010100001 1101000101 0111011011 1001010101 1011000101 0111010101 0101110001 1011110101 0111000111 1 1101110101 1111100101 01110010111 11011101001 1001010111 111100100100 01011101001 0011100101 10010000101 1001010101 011111100 11010101001 1011110101 1101010111 1101110110 10111111101 11110100001 011010110101 1 1101000111 11010010101 1101010101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 202
  • Amount of lines: 552
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, for, to, our, of, or, such, with, her, fall, in, his, both, me, had, their, ', new, she, not, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, then, and, alas, or, o'er, a, both, forgive, without, his are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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