This is an analysis of the poem The Isle that begins with:
There was a little lawny islet
By anemone and violet,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXbbXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 11011100 101010 10111011 10101100 11111011 1011101 101100 11101101 01011101 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, nor are repeated.
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