This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of St. Austin And The Child that begins with:
St. Austin, going in thought
Along the sea-sands gray, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fbgb dede hghg ecec iXiX icic bjbj dXdc kXkh cbcb ebeX clcX gbXb fefe eeee mlmX fafX hjhj cgcg abXXXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 010111 00010111 110101 1101001 100101 10110111 110111 111101 1001001 10010111 010111 101101 011101 010000111 110101 011111 010101 01010111 1101001 010101 0111001 10110101 010111 010101 111101 10110101 1110111 110101 010111 01011100 111101 100111 100101 11010101 010101 101111 010101 10011001 010101 100111 110111 11010101 111111 111001 1101111 11011101 110101 111101 110100 111111001 110101 1100111 011101 11110101 010111 101111 0111011 11010101 1111110 110101 010111 11111101 111101 100111 011111 11010001 111111 111111 011101 01011101 110101 110111 111001 11010111 110111 100101 011101 11111001 010101 111101 111101 11010111 110001 101101 0111101 11010101 111100 100101 111001 10111110 110101 110101 111101 10010111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; of, it, and, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words because, a, as, and are repeated.
The author used the same words he, 'the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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