This is an analysis of the poem In The Harbour: Chimes that begins with:
Sweet chimes! that in the loneliness of night
Salute the passing hour, and in the dark... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcdbcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110010001 01010101001 1101000111 01000100101 1111110101 1101010001 0111010111 1111010011 1011000101 10100101101 0001010101 01001110111 1011001101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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