This is an analysis of the poem To The Eastern Shore that begins with:
I'S feelin' kin' o' lonesome in my little room to-night,
An' my min's done los' de minutes an' de miles,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdXXXXXcEXecfafacEXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100110101 111110101010 10111010010001 10101110011 1011001001 111 10111010101 111010101010101 11101110101 11010101100101 10101010001 101010101100101 11101000101 1011001001 111 10111010110 101010101010001 1010110101 11000101110101 10101111111 111010101010101 10111110101 1011001001 111 101000010101 111010101010111 10101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1223
- Average number of words per stanza: 243
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, to, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', f'om, whaih are repeated.
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