This is an analysis of the poem Idea Liii: To The River Ancor that begins with:
Clear Ancor, on whose silver-sanded shore
My soul-shrin'd saint, my fair Idea lies,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdbdbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110101 11101110101 111111101 110101101 11110100001 10010101010 11000010111 01010110010 1111111111 1111010100 1011111110 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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