This is an analysis of the poem Desmond's Song that begins with:
By the Feal's wave benighted,
No star in the skies, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgcgc Xhghijij kbkbbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 11001 0111110 11111 1110101 101111 1110011 011111 111110 11001 1111010 11001 1100110 11010 1110010 01111 1110100 01001 0111110 11111 101110 01001 10100110 11011 111010 01001 110110 01001 1011110 11001 1010010 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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