This is an analysis of the poem Comala, A Dramatic Poem that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b X X X b X X X X b c d X X a b e X d X f g X X X X f X c e b fXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001010010110010001010100100101001010000101001001101011010010100000100001011010101000101010101001010110010010110101010110000101000010010101001101010101001010101010101010110110100101010010100001011100111010110111000010011110101100010101010101111101101001010110101001100111101010011111101001010110101100100110001011101010110100101101101010100010010100111001000101010001001 010 10 100 100 100010 1000010 1 1000010101111010101100101010111011101101110111101110 10001110111111111010111011101010111101111100101001101010101001011001010 10001101010101010101100011100011100101010101101010111 10001100101111111111101010111010101010001110110101001011111001010001 100110001111011101001101001001110101011110001100111111101010011010010110101001111010110011011010110101001101010010100111001011101100010011101010010001011010 1001110101011010011010111101011110101011011011010011101110101001001 10011110101100101111101010101010010101101001111000100111101001001011010010 1001111010111000101110101011100111101110101001111010110101001 100100101010100101010110101011101011011001100111001011010001 1000101101111110100111 1000100111011101011110011011011111101110011001000100111111100111011111010100111111111010101110110001001001110010010111110101110111101101 10011110101011010101110110110111101110010110010010 10011100111011011111010111111101111101001010100011111111111110010001110100100111111100 1000110111010110011110101011101010001 100100101010001001001101011011011001111101001000100010011111110101111 1011101101001010100110110101001111101010011000100110110100110111100111011100101100010010011010010100111111010100 10011001011110101 1010010110101010111100101110010010 1001001001110110011111010111101011110101101110010 1000100111111001001101100101001001010 101110101001010111101101110101011 1110101010101011010111110101111101010110110110101010010010110011010000100101111100101011010101010101 100001111011111011101101100011 10001001010110010111110011111101101011 100101001001010110010011111101001001111010010111111011111011111111111110010011110101011110101110101110010101100011010010010101001010 111001010111110101001110101000101000101011010100111110111110111101111101111111111110110101011111010111110110101110010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 249 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 48
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, her, he, him, that, in, poem, she, had, his, on, son, and, night, thy, from, rise, comala, thou, o, me, behold, king, as, i, might, have, not, be, thee, my, it, fingal, cave, rest, come, roll, our, joy, carun, sons, streamy, their, soul, maid, when, lift, see, moonbeams, voice, around, at, shalt are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases , comala connect the lines.
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