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

By chapel bare, with walls sea-beat
The lichened urns in wilds are lost... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXacA badaacA efafaXa XgXgfXf hhbhiii jklkmnm aiiihah nbbbhbh gLglaa mhohhh mhnhapa ahehhh oehebpb alolXXa nmamaa hmbmhh himindn hbibmXm glgLhh gfefbcb ikekee mkXkaaX lknXgg mhkhii XkikeX fnhngajaboboh hXlakaaa amXmff gLgLhah Xahahch faiahh ehghbkb imim
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,6,7,6,7,7,6,6,7,7,6,7,6,7,6,6,6,13,8,6,7,7,6,7,6,7,7,6,7,7,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010111 010010111 010101001 110111010 01100111 10111110 101 101110101 11010101 1100100100 01010001 0111001111 110011110 101 110101001 11010111 010110111 11011101 1100100101 01010111 001 01010110 01010101 01011101 01110101 010101001 11001010010 11 11110101 111100101 1001011011 10110101 110101001 1001001001 01 10110101 101100111 01010101 11011101 100111001 11111100 01 110101001 010100101 01110111 10010101 010010101 1101111010 1 110101001 01010101 110101010 11010101 11011101 110100111 01 11111101 11010101 11010101 11010101 10010101 0111010111 01111111 11010111 11010111 010100111 01110111 0101010101 11111101 010101001 11111101 11110101 011100101 01010010100 1 110100111 110011101 01010101 010100101 110010101 0101110111 110101001 11110101 11010101 01010100 11110111 11010010110 11 01011101 11010101 110100101 01011101 11011110 110101010 1 01110101 110011101 01011101 010101001 01110101 11010100101 011001101 11011111 11011101 11010101 100111001 0100111001001 01011101 010101001 10010101 110111001 11111111 01001110100 1 11011101 01110101 11010111 10010111 11010111 11010010010 1 11111111 11010101 01010111 01110111 11010101 1101110101 1000100101 100101001 11011001 111100101 01011101 111101100 1 01010101 01011101 010010101 110101001 01110101 10110100101 11110111 110101101 110110010 11111111 110010111 111111110 1 01011101 11111111 0111001001 11011110 11110110 0111011111 11011101 01010111 11010101 11011101 11110111 0101010111 11011101 11111111 11010101 11101101 11011111 1100010101 01011101 11110101 01011101 11010101 1011111 1 110101110 1 11011101 110111001 10011101 110101111 101100101 01101011100101 1 11010101 01110101 01010101 11110101 10110101 11010100001 11010101 00010011 11010101 010010101 11011101 01101010100 110100111 11010101 10011101 01110111 11111110 01001110100 1 01110101 01110101 0110101101 110010101 011010101 111011100 101 01011101 01110101 01010101 01011111 11010101 1001111001 111011101 11010111 110100101 11110101 11110101 111101111 1 11010111 11010101 10010101 01011101 11010101 10010010111 11010101 111100111 11011101 110111110 11011101 10111110 101 11111101 11111101 11011101 101010100 11010101 110011101 11 110011101 11010101 01010111 1101001001 110011101 0101111110 110100001 01110111 11011110 11010101 10011111 01001110010 1 11011101 01010111 10110101 111101001 11100101 1101010000 1 010101 110101 01011100 010001 010111 010101 01010100 110101 1111001 110101 010001 0100101 110101 110101 011101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 275
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; flag, and, they, their, year, old, light, his, flags, o' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, like, so, in, or, his, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word sheet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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