This is an analysis of the poem Hawaiian that begins with:
SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimes
With Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab Xbacb XXccdd ebe aXXXc bXabaaacbXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,3,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101101 0111000101 01010101010 0101000101 100 0100111111 011101001 11110011110101 0100111 1100011 01110101100 01110111 1110010100100111 1111110 111010011111000111011101 101001011010101 0101010101 01101110110 110101 1101011101010 10010101110 10 1100101 10010101001 011010011100 0110111101 01 101010 101010 101010 10100101 010001 01001 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; with, sandalwood, to, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the, too, like are repeated.
The author used the same word sandalwood 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 peoples is repeated).
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