This is an analysis of the poem At Havre De Grace that begins with:

ABOVE the busy Norman town,
The high precipitous sea-cliffs rise,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc cdcdee fafagg bfbfgg ehehee bebegg fefeii jjjjff jhjhgg kekeaa lelebb ceceaa jajajj bkbkff Xegebb mjmjgg nanaee gfgfgg ejejaa aaaaaa bcbXee hohogg bhbhaa fofohh jljljjXcicijj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01010101 010100111 10110101 01110101 11010101 010101001 11111101 10110000 110101011 011100111 11010101 01110101 11110111 01011001 10111101 10010101 10110101 11111101 11010111 010010111 11011001 11010101 11011001 11010001 10011101 1001111 11010101 00110101 10111111 00110101 010101010 110000111 101101010 111011111 1011001001 01110001 01010101 11010101 10111111 11010101 01010111 010000101 11110111 1100100111 110100101 00110001 111101001 11110101 01001101 01000111 11110111 11011111 10101101 11111111 10011011 01010001 10011101 01010101 010101001 10110110 11110101 11000111 11110101 11010011 11010101 11110100 10111101 01110101 0110101 00110001 11110101 11010101 11010101 11011001 10111101 10110101 011101001 11110101 11011101 00111001 01010111 010111001 01000111 11110101 10010100 01110001 10111101 11010101 01010101 11110101 101101001 11000111 11011111 11000101 10110101 01110111 10110111 11101101 11010101 01011101 10110101 10110001 11110101 01110111 111100101 11010001 111010101 11110101 11010111 011101001 01011101 01011111 10111101 110100111 00111111 01010111 01110101 01110111 011101001 11110101 11010101 01100011 11010101 010100101 11110101 11010101 110100101 10111101 100110101 11110101 11010100 11011111 11111101 11010111 010011101 11110111 10110101 11010101 11110111 01110101 11011101 01001101 11010111 111100101 11110101 110010111 11110111 111100111 11110111 11011101 11000101 11010101 110100111 11000101 01011101 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 156
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, and, her, thy, or, oh, of, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no, only, with, to, again are repeated.

    The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of At Havre De Grace;
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