This is an analysis of the poem The Morai that begins with:

FAIR OTAHEITE , fondly blest
By him who long was doom'd to brave... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcacdedXfffgXgdhdhiiejejkkfffflalaeeXemamaeeiifnfnelelffffaaagga kkmmffeemmkkkkeeffaammmmffllggiiffkkllmm aallffmmddffbbkkmmeeiijjkkXmfflddXhhfkaakfdaaffXdfmmdldlemem aamXambXfXmfbedejdjddkeaaekdoodfiif
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,40,60,35,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101 11111101 01000101 11010101 10111101 11010101 11110101 1110101 10110101 011101 11000111 11010101 11010101 0101100010 10110110 010100010 11110101 11110101 01010101 01010001 110101001 11010001 10101010 101110101 1010111010 1010101 1011101 1011101 1110101 1110101 11110101 0100101 1010101 10010111 011101001 10110101 1111101 11010101 1010101 11010101 1110101 01011111 11110101 01010101 01111111 11010111 011111001 11010101 01010111 01010111 01111101 01011111 10011101 01010101 011111001 10110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11100101 11010101 1010101 11010101 1000100010 010111110 110101001 11010001 1011001 1010111 1110101 1010101 1110101 011101001 0010101 1011101 1000101 11011101 01001001 1010101 1010101 1010101 00101001 110110101 01010001 11101001 11010101 11010101 01000101 11011101 110101001 11010101 11000101 1010101 1010101 111101010 1111101010 1011101 1010101 1000101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 01010101 1010101 10100101 11010101 110100101 11010101 001100101 1011101 1000101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010001 11101001 1010101 1010101 0011101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1110101 11010101 1010101 1110111 01010101 1010101 1011101 00101010 01010111 1010101 1010101 11111101 11101001 11010001 11111110 110100101 11010101 11011101 11111101 110100101 11010101 10000101 110100101 11110111 11010111 11010101 01010101 01110101 01110010 01010101 11010001 10110101 01000101 11100101 11010001 11010011 01011111 110110101 010010101 11011001 11010101 11010101 01010101 11011001 110101001 11010101 11010101 11010101 1101001010 11011101 010101100 01011101 11011101 01010101 10010111 10010101 11001101 01010101 11010101 011011101 11010101 01011001 110101011 11010111 01010101 11010001 11000111 110101001 01000101 11110111 01010001 110111001 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1732
  • Average number of words per stanza: 297
  • Amount of lines: 201
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; no, far, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, whence, in, the, shall, still, never, ye, till, no, his, far are repeated.

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  • summary of The Morai;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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