This is an analysis of the poem Atlantis that begins with:
Westward the pillars slender
Of Hercules it lay- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXbCB dedefdcB fgfgfbCB ehehXgCB gfgfeXcB gegeXbCB ciciXbCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 010101 0111110 110101 1101110 111110 00101010 010001 01010010 010101 01010010 111101 1101010 011100 00101010 010001 11010011 110111 01101001 110101 1101110 010111 00101010 010001 10010101 1010111 01011111 010101 11110101 101101 00101010 010001 11010011 110101 01100101 011101 0111110 011100 00101010 010001 1111110 110101 1111010 010101 11010010 111101 00101010 010001 01010101 110101 01111111 110101 1111010 0111101 00101010 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; atlantis is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase atlantis connects the lines.
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- summary of Atlantis;
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