This is an analysis of the poem Southampton Castle that begins with:
INSCRIBED TO THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.
The moonlight is without; and I could lose... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcaadefbgbbbafbebahdiXbchaahebdfeXchibchbiiidabgbahbhbgaeXfgii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,62,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010011011 0110011111 11001111101 1001010101 0100011101 1101011101 100100111 11 1101010101 1001011011 01010101 01 1111010101 1011011101 1111011100 100100110110 0101001111 0101 1100001 110101101 0111010101 0101110101 11010110101 0101010101 1111010101 1101011101 10101110101 1011110111 1101011011 1111111100 11001111011 1101111101 0111100101 11011010101 0101010100 111101 1101 1111010101 0101001101 1101011111 01110111001 1111010101 1101010011 11001010001 1001000101 0001000101 11010011001 0111110101 0101000111 0101010101 1011100101 1101110111 1011010101 1101011001 1111010111 0101110 101 1101010101 11011101010 1101010101 01010101011 1101010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1291
- Average number of words per stanza: 226
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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