This is an analysis of the poem Lemnos Harbour that begins with:
The island sleeps,-but it has no delight
For em, to whom that sleep has been unkind....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccab daeeda abXab fcbbfc bdXXbd Xbaabb ebaaXeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101101101 1101111001 1111011101 1111111111 1101000111 1011001 1101000101 0101000101 1101011111 1101110101 1101110101 1101111 110111011 01001010101 0101110101 1101111111 1010111 0101010101 0101110111 1111110111 1101010111 1101111101 1010111 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 11010101011 0101110111 1011001 1101011110 1111110101 10111011101 1111111101 1111111101 111101 0101111101 1111011101 1111111101 0111111001 1101000101 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; long, of, i, and, see, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and, they 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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