This is an analysis of the poem The Island Hunting-Song that begins with:
No more the summer floweret charms,
The leaves will soon be sere,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd edaddfdf gegeabaX hghghchc aiaijeje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 010101 110101001 010101 11010101 110101 01011101 1111101 11010101 010101 11110101 010101 11011101 110101 01010101 110101 11011101 1101001 110000101 011101 010010101 011101 10111101 110101 11010101 110101 01011101 111111 11000110 011111 11010111 010101 11110111 011001 110101101 110111 11010101 111001 11010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, our are repeated.
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