This is an analysis of the poem The Holy Land. From Lamartine that begins with:
I have not felt, o'er seas of sand,
The rocking of the desert bark;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeaedXdX dfdfaeae agagdfdf Xegehdhd Xegeaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111110101 01000101 110110111 11011111 11111101 11110111 11010101 010101001 11110101 11010101 110100101 11010111 11111101 01000111 11010111 010101000 01110100 11110101 11110101 11010101 01011111 01010001 11001101 011101001 11101101 11010101 11110111 11010101 11011111 11010101 110100101 11110101 11110100 11111101 11010111 11011001 11110101 01010111 11010111 101100101 11110111 10010111 11010101 11011101 11111101 11110111 01010111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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