This is an analysis of the poem Henry The Hermit that begins with:
It was a little island where he dwelt,
Or rather a lone rock, barren and bleak,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdabcXeafegfegaechaXhXX gcghgXXgdgghXaecXefchg fegXecghgaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,22,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 1100111011 1101010011 0111010100 0111110101 1101010101 1001010101 0101010100 1001110011 1100011111 1010011101 1011110101 1011110101 1111010111 1101010101 1101011101 0101010111 11011000101 11010110001 110111101 1011100101 1101010101 1011000101 1101011101 0011110100 0100011111 1101110101 1110110101 1101000101 1111011011 0101010101 1101011001 1011010101 10001110100 01001010101 1101010111 0101110101 1100111100 0101101111 0111100101 1101011101 1001000100 1111100101 1101011011 1101010101 1101111101 0101011001 1101010101 1101111011 1001010111 011101001001 0101000101 0101110001 11010101010 1100010101 1011011111 0110011101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 802
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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