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

I.
Stranger! if e'er thine ardent step hath traced...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbccacaa dadeacacc dfdffgfgg XbbbccbbddaX XgghiihXjaakkkdfbX XiifaafffgkkglllXkXkbbkkkkgggkmmbbaehX affbbnnjjbbaakkdXXkkbXggaabbXX akkaaooggbbccjXppkkkkcc XIjXjdcddcoogkkgiikkmXbhhbaaa Xkkaaqqggnnakkaqqakkjbbjffhhaabgggbcchhaaaa XIcicbgXXkkbbkkppmmkkccf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,9,12,18,38,30,23,29,43,27,32,29,23,24,29,25,33,22,20,30,31,25,31,18,19,26,24,39,29,18,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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11010101 11010101 11111101 11010111 110101010 111111010 01011101 11110101 01111101 01010101 11110101 10110101 01010101 01110011 11110111 01010101 01101101 010100001 1 111100101 11110101 10011101 10010101 01110111 11110101 0100100111 01010001 110010101 11000111 11011101 010111001 10010101 10110100 11010111 01011101 11010101 10010111 11011101 01011101 11010101 10110101 1 100100101 110101 01010111 010001 010011101 011101 01010101 010010101 101101 11011101 10010111 101101 010111001 11011101 1101001 11111101 101101101 11010001 11010101 01010111 00110111 110101 110000101 11010101 010101 11010111 11010101 11110101 1 10010101 010110111 010101111 110110001 11010101 010101011 00010111 01111101 11110101 1101101 010101 01110111 11111101 010101 11101101 01010101 010101 11010101 10110101 111101 11111101 11010111 010101 11010101 110101001 11011111 11000101 11110111 10110111 1100101 01011001 10110101 10111101 010001 11100101 11010101 10011111 01010101 111101 111100101 10110101 010001 1 100100101 10011010 01110101 0101110 11010111 110001 11010110 1101110 11010101 11011101 11010101 100100001 010011101 101110101 11010101 01000101 01010001 01011101 011100101 010101001 010010101 01010101 010101010 100101010 01111101 11011101 1 100100101 10100101 111010101 10110101 010110101 11011100 11010101 111101 11010101 11110101 010011 10111101 110001101 11010101 11010101 10010111 010000101 11010101 01010101 10011101 11011111 11011101 00111101 01010111 11010100 11010101 0110101 11011101 11111101 110101101 111111010 1 100100101 010111 11010001 1010101 1111111 11100010011 10100101 11111001 1100100101 011101 11110111 1010010101 0100101 1011111 11011101 11010101 101010101 110101 11011101 11010001 110100 11111111 011101010 110101 100010101 11010101 01010101 110101 1 10011100 101011101 11011011 01010101 111001 11010111 111101010 11110001 010101 01010101 10110101 11010111 11110101 11111101 10101101 010010101 11010101 11010111 1010001 11010101 110011111 010101 1 11110111 11001100 111101 01111101 11110001 10110101 111101 10110111 01010111 11010101 010101 11010101 100111101 010111 010101010 100101010 011101 01111101 11011101 010101 11010111 11010101 010101 1 00011101 01110101 01011111 110010101 10110101 110101101 110001 10011101 101100111 11010101 110101 10011101 111110011 11110101 01001001 11011111 01010101 01110001 11110101 11010101 00010101 10101101 11011111 110101 11011101 11010011 01110101 010101 1 11010101 11010101 11011101 10110101 01011111 01110101 11110101 01010111 110100001 010000101 11010101 11110001 11110101 11011101 01011101 10010101 100110101 11110101 11111101 01010011 11110111 111111001 11001111 101100010 1 11110101 11010101 11010101 11011111 01111001 11010101 01010101 10110101 11010111 110010101 10110101 11010001 10110101 110101001 11010111 01111101 10010101 10111101 010101001 11111111 110101101 11111111 10101101 0011101 11111101 00010101 11010101 101111111 01110101 11110011 11111111 01011101 1 110001101 00110111 01110101 11010101 11010111 11010101 11110111 11011101 10110111 01110101 01010101 01010101 11010101 01010111 11010101 10111101 11111101 01111011 01011101 11110101 11011101 1 01110101 11010101 01011101 11110101 01011011 10010111 11010101 110110111 10011111 01010101 10011101 11011101 11010011 11110101 111101001 10111111 01111101 101101001 11110101 1 10110101 110101001 10011111 110110101 01010111 11011101 100010101 11011101 11110101 01100111 111111001 01011101 11011101 01010101 11011101 10111101 01010111 11000101 010100101 010100111 01010011 11011101 01110111 11011011 11111111 111110001 110100101 01010101 11111101 1 11111101 11010101 11101101 1100100101 10110111 01010101 11110101 10010001 111100111 10011101 101110101 10010101 1001111001 01110101 1111001010 11110101 11110101 11110101 11010101 11010001 11110101 01010101 11010001 11110101 010010111 10011101 11010101 11010101 01010111 11010111 1 11010101 11110101 011111 1110101 01010101 110011 11010111 01010101 11110111 01010101 01011111 00010100 01011101 11110100 11110101 11110101 11101101 01010111 1001011 01000110 11011101 1010010011 11110101 01110111 1 11001111 11110111 11010101 11010101 00010101 01001101 01010111 11010101 11001101 01011101 11010001 01010101 11111101 110010101 10111101 11110101 11010001 10010111 01110111 01000101 11010111 11011111 10100101 11010101 01011101 1100100101 01110101 111101101 11010101 110101010 1 11111101 11010101 11011101 01010101 10011101 11011101 11011101 11011101 01011101 11010101 01110111 01110111 110010011 11111101 00110101 11111111 01110101 1 11110101 1000101011 11110011 011100101 11011101 01001101 11110111 010011001 111111001 11110101 110010101 10010101 11010111 11010101 11011111 111111001 110110101 11001101 1 11011111 11111101 11000101 11011101 11001011 10010101 10011111 0100100101 10010101 1111101 10110101 10111111 10111101 01010101 11110101 11110001 111101001 10111101 11111101 10110111 110101001 00110101 11010101 11101111 00111101 1 11111101 10111101 01011101 110011101 01110111 110101010 1111010010 11110111 11011011 10010101 11111101 10010101 111100111 01010101 11111101 11011101 10010101 10111100 01010101 11100111 11010111 11010101 11011101 1 110001010 011101110 111101010 110001010 11010011 10110101 01010111 11010101 11010111 11110111 11110111 110101000 1001000110 111101010 11001101 11010101 11010111 01000011 11111101 01010111 11010111 10110101 10010100 01000101 11110111 01011101 101110100 11010111 110101111 11110101 11110101 11010101 11110111 11111101 01110111 11100001 10110101 01100101 1 01001101 01110111 11010100 01111101 11010101 01110101 01010001 11010101 101101 11111101 11011101 110011 11011011 11010101 11111101 10011111 11011101 11110101 11110110 11110101 11010101 11110101 111100110 111111010 10110101 110101101 0100110101 11011101 1 101110011 101110101 10010101 01011111 11010101 11100101 11010111 01011111 01110111 110101010 11010111 111101001 11010101 11111101 01010101 10110111 01010101 1 10011101 11110101 10011101 11011101 111000101 01010101 11110101 11011101 10011111 11011101 110001110 0111001110 11110101 10110101 10010101 01010101 01011111 11101011 10110100 11010101 11010101 110101001 01110101 01110111 11111101 11010111 011101110 11011101 11010101 11011011 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 872
  • Average number of words per stanza: 158
  • Amount of lines: 807
  • 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; with, and, his, of, her, they, i, to, thy, he, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words glad, and, the, his, i, whose, for, or, to are repeated.

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

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

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