This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written In The Bay Of Lerici that begins with:

She left me at the silent time
When the moon had ceas'd to climb... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeeffgghhiiaaddccddjjkkcceeddccllmmbbaacclX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 1011101 01010101 11110101 1010101 1000101 1110101 0010001 11111101 10101001 1110001 0010111 11111111 1010001 11010111 01010001 100101101 1010111 11111100 10011100 11010101 01011111 11011101 0011011 01110001 11101101 110100101 01000101 01111111 11110111 11110101 10010111 11011001 101100100 11010111 10011001 1110100 11110111 1011111 0011111 1010110 10100010 01111111 0101001001 1010001 11010111 1110111 01001001 11011101 10001111 00011101 01010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1837
  • Average number of words per stanza: 318
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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 are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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