This is an analysis of the poem Coombe-Ellen that begins with:

Call the strange spirit that abides unseen
In wilds, and wastes, and shaggy solitudes,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdbeeXafbbghighXbjedfbfklfkkXmffjXidkbfkfkefnjhfXkmaoakjbiikfaXfaajakifpfpjXdjqkahkqibekidrerpfriXrmkjfaikefafjpXhbefdcnfjfdbjkbffXbkbbkpebbfbfemaqbimfamkedkiXkdikokhhXbsmfmkfrjphkkkblXbabbaadibmebrbpfdcqarmqibXaekfjrbbhbgppffiihkhkaaffkipfdatdufnafei
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 351,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101 01111101000 1101111111 1101011101 1101010111 1101111101 100010100111 1101010101 0111011100 10010110110 0101010111 1101000101 1101001101 0111110111 10110111010 1101010101 0101110101 11110100110 0100111101 1001010100 00101110101 1011110101 0111110101 0110110101 1111010001 0100010101 1101001101 1101110111 1101011101 1101011011 0111110001 0111110101 1100011000 11001010111 1101001111 1101010111 1101011101 1001010100 1101111111 1101010001 0011010101 11010101001 1001010111 11011010101 0101010111 01110100101 0011010101 01010100101 1011110001 0101010101 0101111101 1011010111 0101010100 0100111011 0101010101 1100110001 0110010101 1100110101 1101100001 0101110101 0101110111 1100010101 1101111111 0101010111 1111111111 00110010111 110101001100 0111010001 1101011101 1011110111 1101111101 1111010011 1101110111 0101010111 10110010111 1111011101 0101001101 1101110101 10011010101 110010101000 0110111111 1011011011 1111110101 0101110101 1011111101 1111110111 10010111001 1101011101 0101011101 1011001101 11001011101 1101010111 01001010111 11110100101 1001011011 1111010101 110011100111 0101011101 11100110101 0101010001 0101110111 1111011011 01010010111 1101010001 1011011101 1101110111 0101010101 1101011101 0101011101 1101010111 1001110101 0101101101 1100111111 1101010111 11011101011 1101010101 1011010101 10001010011 1001110101 1101 1101001 1111011101 1001011011 0111010101 01011100101 0101010101 0101011101 010010110101 11010001001 1001010111 1011110101 0111010100 0111001101 0111011011 1001011000 1111100101 0111111101 0101010101 0101010011 0111000111 1101010101 01110101001 1111110101 11110010101 1001110101 1001001101 011010101 010111011 0101010011 1101111101 110010010101 1001110101 11001011111 1011011101 11001010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 1011001101 1001001101 11001110111 1101010111 111001010 1011010101 10110101001 0101110011 011100100101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 11011010111 0101010101 01011110001 1101110101 1101010101 0101011001 0101000111 1101110101 1101011011 0101010111 11011100001 1101010111 1101110101 1011101101 0111010101 01111000101 11010100111 0101011101 0101111101 0101011011 01010010101 1011110011 01001101001 0101111101 0101010101 1101010101 1100110011 1011000101 1100011011 1111010101 0111000101 1101010101 1000111101 1110010101 10001010101 1101011001 01001010101 10010011101 1001010001 0101010101 1110110101 1101101001 1101000101 1111110111 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 01010111001 11010010111 0101010101 1101101101 10010101 110111 11010100 01110 10010101 1101110101 10011110111 110101 110111 11010101 1110111 1110101 1000111 01111101 1001 1101 1101011111 110111011111 0111010101 1101010101 0101011101 1011110101 1110010100 1101110011 0101010111 0101011101 1101010100 0101110101 1001011111 1001010001 01001010101 1111001101 01001010111 0111010111 10010011111 1101010101 01001000111 00101001101 1001111111 0110110101 11010011101 1101010101 1101011100 1101010001 1101111101 111000010101 0101011101 1101011111 0100110101 1100100011 1101001101 0111001111 1101110111 11011100101 11100101011 10100011011 1011010101 1111010101 100111011010 1101011101 0101011101 1101010101 1001001101 0101011101 1001100011 0101001101 0101111101 1101011101 01010101010 0101011111 0001011101 1101000101 1111010101 0111111111 01001010111 1001011101 1011000101 1101011101 0101010111 1101010101 1101010111 0101111101 1100011011 0101010111 10011010100 01010100011 1101010101 01011111001 1101110101 1111011111 11000101001 0111000101 0101010101 1101010111 0100010101 1101010001 0101110101 1111010011 1101010111 01010011101 0110010101 11001011101 011100011 0100010011 0101010101 1111111111 0101111111 0101010111 0011010101 11111100011 1001010101 0100011101 1101010101 011011111 0101010101 1101110110 0101010001 1111110011 011101100 01001010101 1101010101 1101000111 0101011101 0101011100 1100111111 0101011111 0101011111 1111001101 0001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 15258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2655
  • Amount of lines: 351
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, in, of, hast, thou, its, your, thy, her, his, who, thee, that, thine are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, fear are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines arise, farewell are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase thine connects the lines.

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