This is an analysis of the poem The Island: Canto Iv. that begins with:
I.
White as a white sail on a dusky sea,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccdd XXaeeffeeeeeeccaaXdgghhii XjjddccggddeeaakklliiaamX XXhXXddnnccddllffllnnddeennaammccabXXaa aoohhccddjj aaajjccllhheellffmmffXahhjjaaccff XiXooggeeabjjeeppmmXallXh XeeeeeeXieedXccjjffccffiipphh XjjeeXfiiaanXiieeddggggXXeeddeellmmkkjjdXba lggeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,25,25,39,11,33,25,29,43,23,29,77,17,29,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 1101110101 110010110111 10001011101 0111010100 0101110101 0111010101 11001110111 01110001001 1 1100010100 01110101001 0101010011 1011100001 1101000101 1100110001 1100010101 0101000101 1110110101 0101000101 0101000101 1111011001 1011010001 1001010101 1101010001 11110101001 01111100110 1100010101 0101010101 1111110011 1101010101 01010001001 1101011111 0001010001 1 1001010101 0111110101 1001010101 0111010001 0111011001 1101000101 1111110111 0101011101 1100010101 011010101 1110010111 1101111101 1101110011 1111010001 1101010101 0111110101 0011110001 0111010101 0101011101 1111011101 0101011001 1111011101 0001010101 11110110010 1 1101110110 10110000101 11010111010 11110001010 1111010101 1001110001 0101111111 1101110101 1111010101 1101110101 1111111111 01110110111 1111011100 11110010101 1101011101 1101100001 0111110101 1111010101 0101110111 110010111101 110100101 1111010111 01011001001 1111010101 1110010111 0101000101 1111011101 10101010111 1111110001 1101011001 1011010100 1001011101 1101100111 1101100100 1111010001 11001010111 0100110011 11111000101 1 1111010001 10001011101 1101010101 11110001001 0101010101 1101000101 0100011101 10101010101 1111010101 0101011101 1 1101000111 1001010101 11010000100 1101010011 1001010101 11111101001 1011011001 0111010101 1001000101 0101010111 1101110101 0111011111 0111010101 1101110101 11101010101 1111111101 0111000101 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010111 1001010101 1101011001 1101010101 1101010101 1111010111 1101100101 101110010010 0101000101 1100110101 0111011001 1 1001001101 0111010010 01011010101 0101000101 0101011001 0011010111 0111011001 01011101101 0101010111 1101110100 01100110101 0101111101 0100110101 1011110101 11001101010 1101100010010 01010001001 0111110001 1001010100 01010101111 1101010111 0101010101 1101001000 1101010001 1 1101010101 1101010101 1110010111 0101001101 1101111001 0101010111 0111110110 1101010101 1101010101 1001110101 0011110111 01000101010 0101010001 0101000101 0111010101 1101110011 010100101001 11100100101 1111110101 1011111111 1101000101 1101000100 1111010101 1001010111 11110101010 01111111010 1111010101 01001000101 1 11110100101 0101000101 1100010101 1101011101 1101001110 0111011001 1011010101 1011000101 11001010101 00011111001 10110010101 1101010001 01010111001 11011101001 1101011111 0101010101 11111100101 1101100111 01001010111 1111110011 1101001101 1101110001 1111000111 0101111011 11010100101 1101000111 11110000111 0101110101 1111011101 1111010101 1101010001 1101001101 0101110111 1111011001 1100110001 1100111001 1101010111 0101000101 0101111111 11010101010 0111111100 1101011101 1 1101110001 1101100101 10110011111 01010010101 0101101111 0111011111 1101001101 0101010111 1001011111 11010011001 1101011101 0111110101 1101110111 1011011111 1101110101 1111011101 0101011101 1111011101 1101011101 1101011001 1101011101 0101110101 1 1101011101 1111011110 0111101101 1101010100 1101110101 0101001111 1101101101 111000101 11110010111 0111010001 10011010101 1101011101 1101010101 1001000100 1101111101 1101001100 1101011111 1111110111 1011111101 0100011101 1101110111 0101011101 1101100111 0100010001 1101111101 1001010001 1011110101 1101010101 1 0111111101 0111010101 1001010101 0001011101 1101110101 0101010101 1110110010 1011110101 1110010101 1101110001 1101110111 1101010101 0101000101 1111100101 11011101001 1011010111 1011000101 11001110111 11010100010 111111101110 10011111110 11010101110 1101010101 1101010111 11001010011 0111010101 1101110101 1101010011 1111010100 1101110111 0101011111 01110111001 110011100101 1101010101 1101011101 10011011101 0101010111 0111010101 01001110111 110111111001 1001011101 1101011111 1011110111 1011011101 1111111101 0100110101 0111011101 0111010101 0101110101 1101010101 1100011111 1111110101 0111011001 1101010001 10110101011 1011110101 0101010101 11001010101 1111110111 0111011101 1101010111 0101001101 0101010101 1101011101 01111000111 11001000111 1100010001 1111111101 1101110101 0101011101 0111010111 1111110101 1101110111 1101011101 0111000101 1101111111 1 01110101110 0100010101 1101110101 1101000101 0100010101 1011110101 1111111100 11001011101 11010001001 1101111101 1111010101 0100010101 11001010101 1101010101 1011010011 0101010101 1 1111011101 1101010101 110101001001 1101010101 0101100101 1011010101 01001011111 1101110111 1101111101 0111010101 1111011001 0111011001 10010100101 0101000101 1101110111 1111010101 11111111111 1101110101 11010101001 0101010011 1101010101 1001110111 1001010111 1101010001 1111010101 0111011101 1100111101 1101001101 1 0111110101 1101000011 110111001001 0101011111 0101101001 0101110011 0111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101011111 1101010101 10110010101 110100101010 010101100001 110010010001 0101000101 0111010001 0101011101 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1237
- Average number of words per stanza: 226
- Amount of lines: 435
- 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, his, of, for, her, in, that, their, they, its, all, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, the, no, they are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase old connects the lines.
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- summary of The Island: Canto Iv.;
- central theme;
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