This is an analysis of the poem The Fate Of The Explorers (A Fragment) that begins with:
Set your face toward the darkness — tell of deserts weird and wide,
Where unshaken woods are huddled, and low, languid waters glide;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aabbccee ffaaggbbff hheebb aaXX aaiiaa bbccggaa aabbbbff XXaaaajj ggXXffkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,6,4,6,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010111 101011101110101 111010101010111 101010101110101 1010101010100101 111011101010101 101011101010111 1010101010001111 100110101110111 1110111010000111 10101110100101001 1010011101010101 111010101111011 101010100010111 111010101010101 111010101011101 111000101010101 111011101010101 101110101110001 101010101010111 101010101011101 101010111010111 111010101010111 100100111011111 100010101011101 101111001011101 1111101010000111 111110101010101 1010010101010111 101110101010111 1111010111010111 111010101111111 101110101011101 1001010111010101 100010101010101 101011110010110 111110101011111 1010110101010101 111110111011101 101110100010101 111111100010111 101010101110101 111000101010101 101010111010101 111110100010101 111110100010101 111010111010111 1110111001111111 111010101110001 111110111010111 111011101010101 101000101011001 111110101110101 111110101001111 100110111010001 101000101011101 111010101011111 1010001101000101 1111111011101010 101011101010011 111011111110101 101010101011101 101110101010101 101110101110111 1010010101010101 111010100010101 1011111001110111 111010101010011 101110101010101 101011101110101 101110101110111 101000101000111 1110100101110111 101010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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, he, gave, to, so, with, his, they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gave, and, down, here are repeated.
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