This is an analysis of the poem Xxiv. Calypso that begins with:

And the blue sea loved him, swept him
far out for nine days and nights, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXeXdfgbeddhXiedjkfXhidgXXhjdcckcjkbacchbabXccgkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 1111111 11001010 0011001 01110001 101001010 010110100 11111101 10111110101 101111011 10101001001 11101101 01010011 10100101 110111001 10111010101 101010010 010101110010 1001111110 01001101001 101011011100 0001111101001 11110110011 0010011001 11011110110 011101001110 10111011101 101001111010 0111110101 1101111001 001011111 011111101 11111101 1111110101 0110100110110 10110111110 11100101 1011011100 0101011001 01010001011 001001111 0010100110001010 1110010000101 101011111010 0100101011 1110001111 1010100001 111010001 00111101010 111111 1001001110 11111100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 416
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • 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; him, and, from, of, i, to, be are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.

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