This is an analysis of the poem The Palatine that begins with:
Leagues north, as fly the gull and auk,
Point Judith watches with eye of hawk;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX bbb ccX ddd eee ddd cXc fff ggg eee hhh fff bbb ggg bbb ddd ggg iii bBb ddX ggg bBb ccX iiX bbb jjj kkk eee llg bbb XXXbXXgg XXiXaXcX eeeebbgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 110100101 11110110 101111010 01001101010 1101011110 101101101 101101111 10100100 110100101 011110101 10011111 10011111 101110111 1101101001 101011111 10010101 1110100101 1011100101 110011110 10011101 110110101 110011101 10011000111 10110101 101110101 010100101 110100101 110101111 111100111 1100101101 10101101 110101111 11101101 11010011 01100111 111101101 10100111 10011101 011010001 10100101 00100101101 010100111 100100101 110111111 00010111 11010111 011100101 111101101 1100101101 111101111 110101101 100100101 1011100101 110101011 100110101 110100101 0110111101 111011111 1101100001 101111111 01111101 11011111 010101011 100110101 010100101 110010111 101111101 110100100 11110101 10101111001 11110011 01111101110 1100111010 101101010 10100100101 110010101 110100100 11010101 111101011 101110101 111100101 010110101 010101101 111111110 1101001010 110100101 1011101101 11111101 0010100101 11010111 01111101 01010101 01110111 100101110 010011100 0101110101 110101110101 10111010 110101100 11000111 1111010010 11110111 00010111 0101110111 1101001110100 11011001 010010001 00110100 010100101 11100111 11010011 1101010111 101101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 115
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; by, and, of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words talk, and, do, the, of are repeated.
The author used the same words when, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Palatine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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