A Cottage In A Chine by Jean Ingelow: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Cottage In A Chine that begins with:

We reached the place by night,
And heard the waves breaking:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababab bbbbbb XccXcX XdecdcX fbfbfb agagag hihihi jbjXjb cjcXcj ababab Xbabab kbkXkX lblblb cXcceXX XJXcjkcJ acaXac ababab jijiji Xajaaja jiXjicji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,8,6,6,6,7,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 110110 1101101001 01011010 010110111 01010110 010101 0101110 1111101101 0101110 0010110101 0101110 1101110 111010 1100111011 100011100 1111100101 101011000 011110 0101010 101110011 1 1101010 110010111 1010101 111101 111110 110100101 10101010 11101011 0101110 111111 011010 0111110101 11111010 1110111101 010010010 110101 101010 11001111001 11100110 11001101101 01011110 110101 110110 1010101001 01110010 11111100101 11101010 111101 01011010 1111010111 0101000 110110101 0110110 010101 0111010 10100110111 1111010 1010100111 0101010 111110 1011010 1110110101 1111010 001100101 0111010 110101 0101010 1101100101 1011110 111101101 1011010 011001 111110 111100101 011011010 1110111111 01111010 1111001 010110 1100110111 1101010 110010111 100 11001100 0111111 101010 0111110101 1 101001010 10101101111 1 101010 111111 1100110 1010110111 0100110 111010111 1101010 111001 0101110 1100100101 1101010 010100111 11000010 100101 1111010 110111101 1101010 1010100101 11101010 110001 1010010 1110100101 11010010 110011111 1 001011010 111101 1101110 1100111100 1 101001110 1111101101 1 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 127
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; its, that, for, and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, so, i, its, o, and, that are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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