This is an analysis of the poem The Lord Of The Isles: Canto I. that begins with:

Autumn departs - but still his mantle's fold
Rests on the groves of noble Somerville,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbbbb ccXccdcdd bebeededd fefeeaeaa aeXeeXegg eehhiijjXckkffbbeeaallbb XhhggeXccmmaaddmm XddnnggeXaalldXaabb Xeoeofifi eaeabibX ehhddmmhhaaaaooaaddaaaaaa eaakkffoommeebb Xccaabbffbbccnnffffaaaacc XaackkaaffhhaadXaXhhllaaffkkhhnnccaaeX Xeeaaggkkddnnffd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,24,17,19,9,8,25,15,25,38,18,23,13,21,17,20,27,22,16,16,25,19,21,13,21,23,21,17,19,17,14,23,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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110011001 01111101 11110111 010100101 11111101 01011101 1 11010101 11110101 110101001 11110101 111101001 11111101 11110101 11110101 11010101 110010101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11011101 01010111 010101110 1 01010101 10010101 11010110 11011001 11010101 010111001 111100101 11010001 11010101 01010101 01011101 11011101 110011001 10110101 11010101 11011101 1110101 11011101 110001001 11010101 010110111 01010101 11010101 01010101 1 11111101 11010101 010101010 110101010 010011101 110100111 11010101 00110101 11110101 01110001 111011101 11010111 11110101 11110101 1 110011001 111100101 10110101 11010101 11111101 01000101 11010101 01010101 010010101 01010101 11010111 11010101 10110100 11011001 11110101 00111101 10011111 01000101 010100011 01010101 10111101 1000111101 11010101 11110101 1 10111101 11010101 01111101 1111110010 111101010 11011101 110000111 01100101 1000011101 011001010 010001010 11010101 01011111 01000101 11010011 10010101 01010100 100100101 01010101 10011101 010111001 01011111 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111101 11010101 00111101 1101001 11010101 110111 01010101 10110101 010101 10110101 01010101 111101 11100101 111101 1 11110111 11010101 110111 1011101 10010101 010100 01110101 11011101 110111 11011001 11011101 11111111 110101 11111101 10011101 11001101 110111 11110111 00110001 110100 110010101 0111011 110101 11010101 1110101 110101 1 11110111 101100111 101101 11011101 11000101 111101 10110101 11111101 011101 010011101 1100100101 110111001 010001 11110111 01111101 11111111 11010011 11010111 11010101 011101001 01110101 1 11111011 10110111 010101 01011101 11010101 0110111 101111001 10010101 11001101 111101 11111011 010101 11110111 11111101 111101 1 11010111 01010101 110111 11110101 01011111 11110101 11100101 0110111 11010101 11010101 110100 11011101 110011101 10110101 1101010 1 11111101 11111101 100101 101101001 010001001 11010111 010111 11110101 010011101 101101 11010101 11111101 110111 11111111 111111001 011111 10011111 10111111 110111 10010101 110101010 110111010 011111010 110111 1 11010101 0101110 11110100 1101010 10110101 01011101 1111010 11110101 001100101 11011101 010101 10010101 11010101 11110101 010101 01011011 11111101 110101 1 01001101 101010101 110101 11010101 11110001 010101 100010101 010100101 110001 11010101 11010101 010101 11011101 00110001 010101 01101101 00110101 0100100 010100111 110111 1 111100101 11010101 10010101 111101 10010101 11011101 0101001 11110111 110101 00111101 101101100 010101 1 11011111 01110111 11010101 11010001 11111111 01010101 110010100 110101 11010111 11011100 100111 11011111 10010101 110111 11010101 11000101 010101 10010111 11000101 110111 1 010101001 11110101 10010101 10110101 111111 01011101 11010111 11010111 110001 01010111 110100101 010111 01010111 11010101 111101001 010101 110101011 11010111 111101 110111001 010111001 1101110 1 10010101 11011111 010101111 10111101 11011111 11010101 010101 10010111 110111 11111111 11000101 11010111 010110 10010111 01111001 111101 11011101 11111001 11110011 110101 1 10110101 11111101 110110011 01111111 110101 11111011 11000101 01011101 111101 110100111 11010101 101100 01101101 11010101 11010101 1100101 1 11011111 11011101 11011101 01110101 01101001 10110101 11110011 11101101 11011101 01000101 11111111 0011010 1101001001 11010101 01110101 01100101 11011111 11010101 1 01111101 01011101 11010101 11011101 01011101 110101 10110101 11011101 10110101 100101 11011101 1001011 111111 111101011 11010101 110101 1 01100111 01000101 010111 11111111 11010111 01111101 0111001 110010101 1110001100 110101 01111101 11110111 111100 1 111100101 10111101 11111101 11111111 101111 010100111 110000101 110101 1111010 11110101 110101 11010010 110010101 010111 010011001 010101 01010101 01010001 111101 10010101 11110101 11001010 1 11011101 11010100 01110111 110101 1111101 111101010 01110111 111101 11010100 01010101 01000101 110111 11010101 01010101 10110101 1100101011 010111 11110101 10111111 11110101 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 673
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, more, in, of, thou, he, they, with, their, on, our, so, by, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, by, we, what, the, in, joy, and, nor, far, or, his are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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