This is an analysis of the poem A Coast View that begins with:

High 'mid the shelves of a grey cliff, that yet
Riseth in Babylonian mass above, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdbXdeacXddcXebXdXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101001111 10010100101 001011001001 0111011101 11001100100 110011001001 11010011001 01010010101 0011011111 0101011011 0101011101 01010100001 11010001010 1111010111 1011110011 0101011101 110010011101 1011000101 0111110101 1101000111 1100000101 10010011001 11010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1012
  • Average number of words per stanza: 175
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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