This is an analysis of the poem Geraldine that begins with:

My head is filled with olden rhymes beside this moaning sea,
But many and many a day has gone since I was dear to thee!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddcc eeffcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010101010101 1101100111111101 11110101111101 11110111100001 11010111010101 10110101101001 11111111010101 11110101111101 11010101110101 11110101110101 01010111110101 01110011110001 1111010011100101 100100101110101 11111111010101 11010101110111 111101011100101 110111111100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 538
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, of, not are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word geraldine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Geraldine;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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