This is an analysis of the poem The Sack Of Baltimore that begins with:
The summer sun is falling soft on Carbery's hundred isles
The summer sun is gleaming still through Gabriel's rough defiles...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXc ccddaacc eeXdffcc aaaaffcc gghXXecc aXXXbXcc aahXccXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010101011100101 0101010111001100 11000101110101 10011101010101 01010101010111 01010101011101 110111110101110 01110111010101 01010101110111 11011101011111 010111010110001 01011101110101 110111110110011 11111011010101 11110011110001 11110001110101 11010111011101 11100101010101 010101011100011 011110111111011 11010111010101 110111101011101 01010101011111 1110100010101 11010101010101 11010101010111 11010101011101 11010101110001 11110101110101 1101011011101001 11011101110111 1111100010101 11010111010101 111101010100001 11010101010101 11010101110100 11010101010110 110101101011101 11011111111101 01010100110101 11110101111101 01010110110110 111101001101000 11100101010101 01110101010101 11111110010010 110101010110111 11011001110101 11101101011101 11010101010111 11010101010101 11001001110100 11010101010101 111101110100101 11001001101010 11100100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, then, from, some, she, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, then, some are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word baltimore at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Sack Of Baltimore;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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