This is an analysis of the poem Thule, The Period Of Cosmography that begins with:
Thule, the period of cosmography,
Doth vaunt of Hecla, whose sulphureous fire... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaBB ccccBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010001000 11010110010 1101011101 10010101110 1111011101 1101110111 0101010101 10010011010 0101110101 01110101010 1111011101 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word doth is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word fry at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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