This is an analysis of the poem Names Upon A Stone: (Inscribed To G. L. Fagan, Esq.) that begins with:
ACROSS bleak widths of broken sea
A fierce north-easter breaks,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eeeXfafa gegebgbg bfbfahah gigijgjG dkdkaXah lmlmnXne jdjdoioi pepebgbG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 011101 11010101 010001 11010101 011101 11010011 110001 10000101 010001 11010101 110101 01111101 110111 11011100 011100 11011001 011001 01010001 0100101 11110101 010101 10011101 110101 01110111 110111 110100101 110101 01010101 110111 01000101 011111 11000111 011001 11111111 111101 11001101 011101 010101001 110101 01010111 111101 01011001 011111 01011100 110110 010101111 110111 011101001 110101 01011111 101111 11010111 010101 11011111 011001 01010101 001111 01111111 110101 01010101 110101 11011011 110001 01111101 011101 110101001 010001 11111111 111101 10011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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