This is an analysis of the poem On Old Cape Ann that begins with:
Annisquam
Old days, old ways, old homes beside the sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbcXbbadeadea X X fggffggfhfhhfh X X XiiaaiichejXej X X kllkkllkmmnmmn a a iffiiffilfnlfn a f fhhffhhXafaafX X aXdmmddmmdmafmaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,1,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100 1111110101 11001101001 10010011001 010010010100 1111011100 1111111101 0100110101 1111010001 0111011101 110010101001 10010010101 0101010101 0101010111 0101000011 1 1101100 1001010111 0111110101 0111101100 1001000101 1001110101 01010011101 0101010111 1101010101 0111011101 0100010101 1111001100 01010011101 1101010101 0101010101 1 11100 0111010100 1111110101 10001000101 1101010101 0101010101 01010001111 0111011101 11010111000 1111110001 1100010101 1011010111 01011111100 1111111101 1111110011 1 0101 01110111001 110110011101 1101010111 0111110101 0101110011 1111010101 1101110111 11010011101 1100110111 1001010101 0101010111 0101010101 1101010111 011110001001 1 10101 1101010111 1101110001 1011111101 1111011001 11001011101 0101011101 0111010101 01001111101 10011101001 1011010101 1001011001 100011110001 1011110101 11010101001 1 01 1101110111 1011100101 0111011111 01110111010 1011011101 1011010101 0101000101 10011001100 111100100101 11011011111 1001010001 1101110101 1010011111 0101101000 1 10101 1111010101 1101000111 1100010101 0101011101 1001110101 1001111111 11000010111 11100100111 11011111001 1111010101 1011010101 10010100001 11010100100 1101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 111
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old, and, of, that, what, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words old, the, a are repeated.
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