This is an analysis of the poem Voyage Of The Jettie that begins with:

A shallow stream, from fountains
Deep in the Sandwich mountains,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccbddb eefbbf gghidX bbbbbb ddjeek llbbbb iiXbbX bbfllf aajaaj bbbcXb aadaXX Xebmmb XXbiXb ccbbbb ddbddb nnoaao fXphhp ffckkc ppccccXbbniin
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010 1001010 1111010 1010111 1111111 1111010 0101110 00111010 0111010 110111 110101 1101010 0011011 1011001 00100011 10111110 10101010 1101011 10101111 1111011 1101110 10101110 10111010 1010101 101001010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10100010 00111010 10101010 011100 10111110 10101001 0011101 1111111 1010101 1010101 10101010 10111110 0101010 0111010 1101110 10111010 11010110 1101110 0101010 0110100 1101010 1101010 1011101 1010111 1010101 001101 1001110 0101110 1101010 101001010 10101110 10110010 100101010 100111110 10101010 1101010 11100110 1101010 10101110 0101010 10111010 10111110 1111110 10101010 11101000 0101110 10111110 1010101 0010101 10111010 101110 1010101 0111010 1101010 10000110 1101010 1011101 010111 0101000 10101010 10111110 10111010 01110010 0001010 01010010 1111010 1101010 0101010 01101010 1101110 1110101 0110110 1110010 1010101 1111010 0101010 011101 1110010 0101110 1101001 1101010 0111010 0101010 0101011 0101111 011010 110111 0100101 0101010 1011010 10101010 10101010 111110010 0101110 110111 1101010 1100110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, her are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words then, and 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 her is repeated).

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