This is an analysis of the poem Ultima Thule: Elegiac that begins with:
Dark is the morning with mist; in the narrow mouth of the harbor
Motionless lies the sea, under its curtain of cloud;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc bXdd bcXXeXddae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001001010010 1001011001001 1001001011010010 100100011101001 101101111100010 001111001001 1011001111010110 101001101001 111100111010010 110100010001001 1110111100100 10 1011011011001 10110101010110 11010010001001 100100111010110 1101011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, have are repeated.
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