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

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The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccddbbXcXeffggcc XXhiiggjjkkllccllhhmmnnccaahnbbggiijjaXcc Xggccllaaeeookklljjhhggkkgg XllggjjXlllllggcXeeppoonnoooocckkhhhX acceenneelleaajjllaaoo Xggadggllcceellqqad Xrraahhaacchh nllggXallhhccaaeellccggaaiiaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,41,27,37,22,19,13,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 01110010101 1101011101 111100101010 11011101010 0100111010010 11010011010 1111110111 0111010111 01010101110 11010100001 11011101010 0111011101 1101110111 1101011101 1111101101 1001010101 1101110111 1111010101 1 01011101100 1101000101 1100010101 0111110111 1111010101 1101010001 1111010101 0101010111 1111001111 0100010100 1111010101 1111110111 1011111111 1111110010 11010011111 1101101101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010111 1101001101 1111111101 1111110111 1101001001 1101110101 01100110101 0101010101 1111011110 11110100101 1101011111 01010101001 0100010101 01001011001 1101010001 11010100101 1111010101 0101010111 1101110011 1011111100 1111110101 1001111101 1 0101010101 1011000111 11010011111 1101011111 01011100001 1100010101 01010100001 1101010101 1101110111 1111001101 01010101001 10110110001 1101011101 0101110111 00101111101 0101010101 1111111111 1101010001 1111110101 0111010101 10111101101 11001110101 0111001101 1101011001 1111010101 1111001111 1 1101010001 1100010101 0101010111 0101110111 0111110011 11110101001 1101100110 01010010101 1101110011 1111011001 1101110101 0101011101 1101010101 0101111111 1100011101 01110111010 11110100101 1101011001 11010111010 11011101010 11011000111 1101110101 0101010101 0101111101 0111000101 1111111111 0101011101 1101011101 1101100101 1101011101 11010101010 01001100110 0001010101 0111010101 1111010101 1110010000 1 11110001001 1101011101 1111110101 1111110001 011111110001 10001010100 1011010101 1011001101 0111010101 1101000100 1101010101 1101110101 1011110101 11010101111 11000100101 1101110111 1101110001 1101111111 01111101001 1111010101 0101111001 1 1101110101 1101000101 0111011101 1001111100 1001010001 0111010101 1111111101 1000011111 1001011111 01010011101 1101010111 1111111101 0101111111 1111000101 1100011101 1101111101 1101110001 0101010100 1 01010110110 01011111110 10101010111 0101110101 1011010101 0101001101 11110010101 1111111101 1101011001 0101010101 1101000101 1100010100 1 1111101101 0101010001 0100110111 11011010101 0101010100 11110111001 0011110001 0101001101 1001010011 0111111101 0111010111 1111011101 1110010101 1101010101 10101010111 0111111101 1101100101 1111110101 1101011101 01111101001 1101010101 1010100101001 0100010101 1101110101 1111110101 1011110001 1101010111 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 207
  • 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; their, in, and, his, then, they, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words had, the, a, then, they are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase again connects the lines.

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