This is an analysis of the poem Merlin's Isle that begins with:

O, I went down to Merlin's Isle,
And when that I had found it,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Ababbcccb AdEaddfffd aeaeEXeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 1111110 110110101 1101110 1011010 10110101 0010010111 101110111 1111010 11110101 1111010 0110011 11111111 0101010 1111010 001101001 110101001 11111101 1111010 11110101 1111011 001110101 01011101 0110011 110111111 101011101 111111101 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, me are repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, a, me are repeated).

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