This is an analysis of the poem The White Island:Or Place Of The Blest that begins with:
In this world, the Isle of Dreams,
While we sit by sorrow's streams,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab ccXb dddb eeeX fffb gggb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101 1111101 1110111 010 1110111 1110101 1010100 010 0110101 1110101 1011101 010 1110101 1011101 0011111 100 1011101 1111101 1010111 010 1011101 1010011 1111101 110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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