This is an analysis of the poem The Enviable Isles that begins with:

_From 'Rammon.'_
Through storms you reach them and from... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XabaXb cccXaXa dXaXda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,7,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 1111010 111 0110011101 1101110101 1101110100 1 1111011101 0101010101 1101001001 10 1101011101 1001110101 0101110111 11110100111 1101111 101 1001110100 1 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in is repeated.

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