This is an analysis of the poem After A Lecture On Shelley that begins with:
ONE broad, white sail in Spezzia's treacherous bay
On comes the blast; too daring bark, beware I... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab acac cccc Xdbd eXef bgXg hfhf ciciXagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101001 11011101011 0111000101 0111011101 1001010101 1101010101 11001111111 1111011101 1111010101 1101000101 10001010101 0110001101 10110101010 0111001101 1111010001 0011010001 1111010001 1111110101 1101000101 1011010101 1001010101 0101010011 100110010010 1111100101 1101010001 1001011101 1011000101 11110011001 111101001 1101111101 1001011101 1101011001 11010011101 11001011111 0101000111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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