This is an analysis of the poem In The Harbour: Elegiac Verse that begins with:
I.
Peradventure of old, some bard in Ionian Islands,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXa Xccb Xde Xdb XXf aeg ahijb Xhi XgXfjej Xbi ccX adX XXd XXb Xec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,3,3,3,3,5,3,7,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1000011101010 10011011001001 101000001001100 1000011011001 1101001100011000 1011011011101 10100010110010100 11010101010001 1 1001011011010010 100110110010101 1 1010010111010110 1001011001101 1 1101001011010010 10110111001101 1 110101111110110 111111111111 1 100110001110010 11011011001001 1101001011010100 11000011001001 1 1011001101001010 10010011001001 1 10010010100100 10 10010011001001 10010010011101 10 1010111001001 1 10101111111110 1101011101001 1 1010010010010011 0110111111001 1 011101111010010 10010111001001 1 100100110110110 111100100001001 1 00110111111100 10111111101101 1 10010010110010010 1001001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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