This is an analysis of the poem My Native Land that begins with:
IT chanced to me upon a time to sail
Across the Southern Ocean to and fro; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeafgfg ededeheh ihihfjfj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001010101 0101010011 1101111111 010010011001 1101011101 11011110101 1001110101 1111011101 1111111101 01010010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101010111 11011111011 1111110111 1101110101 1100101101 1101010101 1111110111 1101111101 1101010101 0101010001 1111010111 01110010101 1111110111 1111110101 11011101011 0101111101 1111010101 0101010111 1111111111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, first are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my are repeated.
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