This is an analysis of the poem XXVII. 'About the headlands and the rocky shoals' that begins with:
About the headlands and the rocky shoals
I hear the breath of twilight, sighing, sighing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabccb XdXeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0101010101 11010111010 110011101010 01001111001 10111001110 1011010111 00011010101 01010001010 11001100101 11011001001 1101010000 0101000100 0110100111 10010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 words o, the are repeated.
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