This is an analysis of the poem Long Point Light that begins with:

Long Pont's apparitional
this warm spring morning,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xab bcX dea Xfg Xbh hgX hfi jbc cbh edj iajXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1110000 010110 01010101 1011 0011101001 1011000 100011 111011 1010110 00010101 1111001 10000001 011001 0010011 110100011 01010111 001100 101111100100 00101001 010101001 110111 100100010 10010110 110001011 1101011 01111010 0001001 10111 1001111 101101 10101101 1010110110 01001010 101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word and 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 us is repeated).

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