This is an analysis of the poem Distant View Of England From The Sea that begins with:
Yes! from mine eyes the tears unbidden start,
As thee, my country, and the long-lost sight... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccbdeedff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011001 1111010111 0111111101 0101111101 01011100011 1011010111 111000101001 1001011111 11010100101 11110110111 1111111101 1111001101 0101111111 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 is repeated.
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