This is an analysis of the poem The Bells Of San Blas that begins with:
What say the Bells of San Blas
To the ships that southward pass... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbc ddefXe gghggh iihhhh ccijji Xhhcch kkabba cchffX bbhllh cchccXXccbiib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 0011101 00100100 0000101 10101101 10101011 10101001 0110111 1101101 0101101 1011100 11101101 11101001 1111111 010111 110111 1010011 10100101 1101001 01110101 00100111 1010101 01100101 10111001 0101111 1010111 1100001 1110101 011011 1110111 110111 111001 011101 1111001 100111 1000101 1011001 1110111 1101101 110111 011101 1011001 111111 010011 110111 110001 110101 110100 111111 010101 1010111 110101 0101011 0110111 1011001 10110111 110001 1111101 011010101 10101001 1101101 1110101 0101011 1001101 011001 0011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 66
- 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; to, of, and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.
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