This is an analysis of the poem At Port Royal that begins with:
The tent-lights glimmer on the land,
The ship-lights on the sea; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX Xbab cbcb dddd XeXe eeee cdcd bdbdXbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 011101 01110101 11111 11110110 101101 11110111 110111 11010101 010101 01110101 010101 010010101 111101 01010111 010101 010111010 110101 11110111 110101 01010111 011111 01010101 010101 01011101 110101 11010111 1101101 01110011 110101 01000101 010101 010111001 0101001 100010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; on, our, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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