This is an analysis of the poem The South-Wester that begins with:
Day of the cloud in fleets! O day
Of wedded white and blue, that sail... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbababddeeaafXfffggdhdhffiijkjkcdXdckckcXllflclc kfkfdXkkffmemecXcdnlnllcococncnmmddddpnpnXkdk akakfifXifeeddfcfX fcfccfkqkqqkrparp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,45,18,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 01011111 10000101 01110111 11010101 11010101 11011101 01011111 11011101 01110101 101101001 01000101 11011101 11110101 1000101101 11010111 111100101 11001001 010101110 11110101 01110001 01011101 11000111 11111101 01011101 111101001 11011111 11000101 11010101 10111101 10101010 101101010 11010111 01010111 01011101 110101001 010000101 11110111 11111100 01011101 010010101 010001001 100001111 01010101 11011101 001101010 01011101 11010001 11000101 010100101 011111010 01010101 010101110 111001010 10110101 010001010 11110101 11110111 01010110 11011101 11110011 01010101 01110101 11110101 11110101 01010101 01011101 1101110001 0010010110 11000101 11011101 11001101 11010101 01110101 11010101 01011111 110100111 01010101 11010100 0110101 11010101 110100101 10110101 10110101 01010101 10011111 01010001 01010101 10110101 1101101001 01010101 0100100101 01010101 11011101 11000101 11010101 11010100 01111101 10110111 01000111 10110101 01101101 10010101 010010100 01010101 01011101 11001100 0101001 11000101 01111101 01010101 01010101 11110101 1001000101 10110001 10100101 01111111 01001111 01110101 11110101 011101001 1010001 10010101 01010001 01010111 110101001 11010101 11010101 10100100 01011101 01011111 11111100 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1149
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 133
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, from, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, at are repeated.
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