This is an analysis of the poem The Coral Insect that begins with:
Toil on! toil on! ye ephemeral train,
Who build in the tossing and treacherous main;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXX aaddeeaa bbeeffgg hheeiieeXaaiieeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111101001 11001011001 1110100111 0111101101 1100100101 111001100101 1010100101 0101100111 110101101 0100110101 1100101001 1010101001 011110101 10011100101 011100101 1100110110 1111110101 010110101 1110110101 1010110101 111001101011 1010101101 1111110101 111110101 010010111 0011100101 0111100101 0010011101 1010101101 0100101101 111111111 010110101 1111111010 1011010010011 0010101111 10101111101 1110011100 11001001001 11001101001 10101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; on, toil, ye are repeated.
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