This is an analysis of the poem Flower-De-Luce: Palingenesis that begins with:
I lay upon the headland-height, and listened
To the incessant sobbing of the sea ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacc addaee XffXaa edXegg dffdhh XiieXX XaaXaX XjjXfX ekkejj ejjXddXjaajaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101110 0001010001 010101 11011111110 01010110100 100101 11001101110 1101110101 110001 01111101010 100000100011 110101 01010101110 10011010001 110101 10110001000 0111000111 110011 11110110010 01110100101 110100 11010101010 0011010101 010101 11110100110 1001001111 010101 11010011010 01111101010 0101010 11111111010 0101100101 101101 110010101010 0101010101 000011 10110001000 1111010101 101101 01110111100 0011000101 010101 111101010100 1011010101 100111 110100101100 1111111101 1101110 00110101110 1001010101 011101 01111111010 1101010101 011001 01110101010 11111100111 1100101 01010011000 1100011111 010011 11111011010 1100010111 010101 10110101010 10110100101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, what, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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