This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills that begins with:

Many a green isle needs must be
In the deep wide sea of Misery,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccaaddabee cffeeeaagghhiijjffhhh abkklliijjjcclliimmee abiiXcjXnnccaacclljjoojj aXnnlllllliicceenpcclglii ccaannhhllhheeeccaXaannkkqq iinplloXddiiaXiimmaaalloo aaaXmmcccllccooeeppffiiaajjlleeabcceeaa abeeiihhiiicchhccjjiicXmmhhhrr llcXXppnpXhhccnnssmm o
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,21,21,24,25,27,25,39,30,20,29,35,15,39,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011110 001110100 10100111 1011101 1111111 1010101 0010101 1010101 1010101 1011100 1010101 1010101 1010101 10010001 0010001 1011101 1011101 0010101 10100011 1110111 0110001 01010101 1111101 1011011 1000111 1010111 1010111 1010101 10010101 1010101 1010111 1110101 10010101 10100101 11010100 11011101 1010101 11111011 1010001 1011101 10000111 1011101 1011111 10010001 1011111 1010101 1010101 1011101 1100101 10100101 1010111 1010101 1110111 1111101 110100101 001001100 01010111 11111100 1010100 111000010 010100101 01101000 10010111 1010111 111101010 11111010 100101101 00010001 1110101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010111 101010110 10101110 11011111 1010101 01011011 010010100 10101001 1001101 1011101 1010101 01010101 1000101 10101011 0011101 1011001 11100101 10101001 0010101 10111001 1010101 10101111 11100010 10010010 00100110 00100101 1010101 0010101 1010101 1010101 1110110 1011101 1010101 1111001 00101111 10111001 01110111 0110101 1000101 0110101 1101011 1110101 10110101 11000101 11100101 01110101 1010101 101000101 1011100 010101001 10010101 01011101 1110101 1111011 10100111 1010101 10010001 110111001 1001101 1110101 1010110 1001101 1010101 0010101 1011100 1010101 00010011 0010101 1010101 1010101 1111000 1111101 1010101 10100011 0110101 0110111 1111101 1010101 11111110 00100110 01111001 0110100 1011100 10101101 1010011 1011000 1010101 1010101 1111101 1010101 0010100 10000101 1010101 10101110 10101010 1011011 0011101 10010101 10010111 1001010 111001010 10001001 10010101 1010101 1110111 1110101 1111101 11111001 1000101 1010101 11001001 1100111 11010101 10101011 10010100 1010101 1011111 01011101 11010111 1010110 01010101 1011101 111100 1010101 1010111 0010111 1010111 10100101 1010101 1010111 1011001 1010101 1010101 1010101 0010001 1011101 0010101 1010101 1010111 1010100 1010001 10111001 10111010 10001010 1011101 0100101 1110111 1011101 11110101 11110101 010101001 10010111 1111100 1110111 1111100 1111111 11101010 11100010 1110101 00011100 10100010 1010101 1010111 10010100 11111101 11111101 1110101 10101110 10101010 1010101 1110101 01101010 100111010 10100111 01100101 01011001 1010101 0011101 10111001 1011101 11100011 01010111 1111101 1011100 1011101 0010101 1110101 1010101 1010111 10101101 01010101 11010101 1010101 0010011000 1110111 11001001 10111110 01101110 1010111 0011101 1010111 1010101 1011101 10100100 111011 10011101 0010101 00101001 1010101 1011101 10101100 10101110 001011 1110101 1011101 10011001 01110100 01110111 10001010 00101010 10011101 0010100101 00110100 1011111 1010111 1010111 1110111 1001101 1000001 1010001 0011100 1010101 10101111 1011101 1001101 1011101 1010111 1001001 1111100 1110100 1010111 001010001 1011001 111111 0110111 1010100 01100110 101010010 1010101 1010101 10100110 001011100 1010111 101110101 1110111 01011101 1110100 0111101 1111111 10101001 1010111 0011101 1011101 1111101 01101001 1011101 01101111 1111101 1010001 10111001 0110101 0010101 1111001 1110111 1011111 10100111 1010111 1110100 01100100 0010101 0011100 1011111 10010101 1101101 0011101 1101111 10010101 1010101 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 809
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 362
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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, of, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, there, the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word noon at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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