This is an analysis of the poem The Brown Dwarf Of Rügen (From Narrative And Legendary Poems ) that begins with:

THE pleasant isle of Rügen looks the Baltic water o'er,
To the silver-sanded beaches of the Pomeranian shore;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bb cc XX bb cc dd dd bb bX ee bb fX cc XX bX XX ff bb bb bb bb dX gg dd cc aX cX bb aX bb hh dd ii aa bb dd XX dd ffXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010110101010 0010101000101001 1001010010111 101110010100111 0101010010101 1101011010111 1010101110111 0111011010011 11100111001101 1001111011101 01001010110101 01010111011101 11010101010011 01010001110111 11110110011111 11011101111101 1010101101011111 11011101110111 1001010111101 1001110110101110 1101011110111 1101111100001 1111110110101 11010101110101 01110101111100 1011111011111100 100101111101101 11010100110101 10111010110001 111101011111010 1011110111000111 110101010101110 1111101011011111 110011010110010 01011111101111 11011101010111 11110011010101 01000101010101 11100101010101 10110101011101 11110101110111 11110100111101 01110111010111 11011111110111 11110001110111 101011111101010 11011101110111 101100101100101 1011101111101001 11011111110101 101010101010001 01010101010001 101011101010101 1101010101011100 11011101011101 11010111011100 110110110010101 11101101111101 101011101010011 1111010111111100 111101011100101 11010001110001 11010101110101 11011101110111 11011101110001 1101110110111 11011101110111 11011101010111 11010111010101 11010111010101 11010111010101 01111101010111 11010101011111 0101010010101 1101111111111010 11011011101111100 1001011110101 11111101011111 0101101011111 1100101000101001 1101010110101 11010101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, her, in, said, it, his, for, he, your, they are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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