This is an analysis of the poem The Three Hermits that begins with:
THREE old hermits took the air
By a cold and desolate sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcACaabaXcXccdedeXdXdfXfXacAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 10111001 1110001 1010101 1010101 1000101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1100101 1101101 1011111 10111010 111011110 11111110 1010001 1010101 11110100 1010101 1111101 10100100 1010111 00111010 1010101 11110101 10111110 0010101 10101010 1110111 1110101 1000101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1010
- Average number of words per stanza: 193
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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