This is an analysis of the poem O Carib Isle! that begins with:
The tarantula rattling at the lily’s foot
Across the feet of the dead, laid in white sand ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbacXb bdXe fbfdd fbXabb eaca eXbee XaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,6,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010010010101 01010011011 10101110101 1100011101 110000111101 010101110101 010111 1101 1111010101 10100010111 1111001 00111110101 0100010111101 010011110111 0111010111 1101110011 11001000101 0101111111 0101100101 1111 001000110101110 0101010101110 1001000011101 1100101011011 10101110101 01010101001 1101010101 11100001111100 1111011111 1101110011 1111010101 1000101110101 011101110110 111010110100100 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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