This is an analysis of the poem Adventurers that begins with:

This morning I got up before the sun
Had seized the hill, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaeacaXafgfghaXaieeeccicajajgegXafafbdbdhfhfededddddidid
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110101 1101 1101110111 0111 1111010011 0111 11010101001 1111 0110110111 1110 1101101101 0101 11010101001 1111 1111111100 0100 0111110111 1101 1111010011 1101 0101010011 1111 1111010100 0111 1011110101 1101 0111000111 1101 0110010101 0111 11110110101 0101 0011111111 1111 1111010101 0101 1101011011 1111 1111010111 11100 1111011101 1111 0111011101 0101 1101000101 0111 1111111101 0011 1111011101 1101 0101111101 1101 1100010101 0111 0011010111 1101 10110001101 1101 1100010101 0111 1111011101 1001 1001100111 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2065
  • Average number of words per stanza: 373
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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 is repeated.

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