This is an analysis of the poem Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own that begins with:
Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own,
In a blue summer ocean, far off and alone, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcbcdd XXeecbcbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101011 001101011101 1011010011010 1011011011010 101101 011001 101101 0111001 11001111111 01011111111 101101011101 111111001101 01001101001 11011111101 001011 0011010 101101 1011110 11101001101 111111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, we, and are repeated.
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