This is an analysis of the poem Sunk Lyonesse that begins with:
In sea-cold Lyonesse,
When the Sabbath eve shafts down...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcb cdXdefXfXeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 1010111 101110 00101 0101110 10110001 10100111 11000001 1010101 01110011 10111 01000111 10101011 10010101 001001011 0010101 11010111 11101101 11100101 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sunk Lyonesse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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