This is an analysis of the poem Porlock that begins with:
Porlock! thy verdant vale so fair to sight,
Thy lofty hills which fern and furze imbrown,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabbaccabXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011101 1101111110 010111001 11010100001 01010010101 10001001101 10110111 11001010101 1101010101 11010100111 01010100101 10110101110 1100110101 11010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.
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