This is an analysis of the poem Captive Of The White City, The * that begins with:

Flower of the foam of the waves
Of the beautiful inland sea, -... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcacaaab dDeddeAffe ggccbbaaeaabeggaEgdagadhhbbeaaae iiajkkggbjalba ledaE dDmmeaAecdcedE Xfgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,32,14,5,14,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001001 00100111 1101110 0100111 100101 1001001 011101 10100101 1110101 110101 1011111 001001001 0100111 1001001 0100111 1100111 00100101 100101 101111 11001 100101 001000111 1101111 00100101 10100101 1100100 10100101 1011101 0100101 1010111 100101 00100101 0010111 10110101 10110101 11111 11001 100111 1011101 010101 100111 110101 11101 1011101 10100101 101101 0010101 0100111 1100101 100101 1001000 11001 100101 0010101 010101 010101 100101 010001 100101 010101 10110101 111101 0100111 010101 001000101 1010111 00100111 1101101 0110111 0111111 11001 1011111 001001001 1100101 10110111 110111 1100111 00100101 00100111 010101 101111 11001011 1100101 1111111 11001 01101011000110010100100011110010101011101001110001111010011010010101001110101100111101101 01001101011011011101011 0101010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, free, in, blood, on, dust, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, dust, the, alas, and are repeated.

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

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