This is an analysis of the poem St. Michael's Mount that begins with:
INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD SOMERS.
While summer airs scarce breathe along the tide,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddbbeebbbbbbffeeddgghhbbggbbiieeccggbbjjbbaaaaddkkhhggaaccaaeebbllbbeelleeddffllgghhddeecceeiibbaabbmmffeeddbbbbggddbbbaaddbbccbbbbiiggbbccddaabbeebbbbbbddeemmllggeeaaggbbggbbiiggjjddcclXmmccggXdddaaeXeellmmeebbaaeeaaccddlllaammnnddaammiimmiimmccggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,335,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001100110 1101110101 1101010101 1111001111 0111010111 1101010101 0111010111 0101010101 0101110101 1111010001 0101010101 1101010111 0100101101 11001000101 0101110111 1111001001 1001100101 11010100101 11010111101 0101000101 0110100101 1100101101 0110110101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010101 0101001101 11010100101 0100100101 1111101101 1101010101 0101010101 10101110101 11110100111 1101010111 11010011011 1101010111 1111010101 1111011111 10010010101 1101010101 1101010101 1100111101 1011010111 1101011101 1101111111 11010101101 1111110101 1101100101 1001110111 11011100001 1101010101 1111111111 1011110101 1101111101 1101010011 0101010101 1101011101 1101010111 1101110101 1101011101 1110100011 0101010111 0101011101 1101000101 1111010111 0011110101 11111100011 0101110101 1100011101 10101001101 1100010111 11001101101 11010111001 1101000101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010111 1111110001 1101111111 11110101001 1101000101 01001010101 0111010111 1111001101 11000010111 0011111101 1111010101 1111110101 1111011111 1101111101 11010011011 1101101001 01010100101 0101010101 1101011101 01010100101 11010100101 1101111111 0101011101 0110001001 01010101010 010010101010 1101001101 1101010101 1101110111 0101110111 1110011111 0110000001001 11101100101 1111011011 1101111101 0111000101 1101101111 10110111001 11001010101 110110101 110110101 1100010101 1100111101 011101110111 1101010101 1011011101 1100101101101 10010011101 1010101101 1101111011 0101010101 1001010111 0100110101 1111110101 110101010011 100010010101 011111001 1101110101 010110010101 1001010101 01110001001 1101011101 0101010101 01011100111 1101010011 1101010101 111101110101 0101011101 0101010101 1101011101 0110010111 0111110101 0101110101 1101000101 11010100101 01001010101 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 11011101001 01010010101 1101010101 11010010111 1101110111 0101010101 1111111101 1101001101 0101110100 00101010101 0100110011 1011000101 1101010101 1101010100011 0011111101 11110101001 1101010111 1101011101 1101011101 0111010011 1001011111 1001110011 1111110101 1101011101 0101011011 1011000101 1101010111 0101010111 10110011101 1001110111 1101110111 11001110100 1100110011 1101110101 11110001001 11110001100 11011010101 1100010101 1100010111 1111000101 1011110101 0011001101 1111110110 1101010001 1111000111 1100110111 1101011101 1001010101 1101010101 010101110100 1101010101 110010100101 1101011001 1111010101 1111000101 011100101101 0101010101 0101010101 11011010101 0101111101 1001010101 1100110101 1101110111 0111011101 1001101101 101101010101 1101011011 11011001001 1111010101 11010001001 0101110101 1101011101 1101001110100 1011010111 1101001101 1101010111 0101100111 100100100101 01010001001 10110001001 111000101 1001010011 10011111001 1001011101 1101010111 1101010101 01010001001 1101010101 1101010101 11001001101 1101000101 1111010101 0111000111 1111111101 1101101001 1101010101 1001110101 1101011001 01101011111 0101010001 1101110101 1101100101 11010010101 1101011101 10100010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111000101 0101110101 1101111001 11001010101 10010001111 1101011101 1011000011 10111110101 0101010111 110101110101 0101111111 1011100101 1111010111 1101011101 1101001111 0101010101 01010100101 10110100101 01011001001 0101010011 0111110101 0101010001 1101111101 0011110111 0101111101 011010101 11110101100 0101010010 11101100011 1111110101 1110010101 0111110001 0111010101 1101010001 1101010111 0111110101 1111010101 11000111001 1101010101 01001011101 0101110101 110001001001 1110000101 1101000111 10011100101 1001011101 01001011111 11010100110 11001110111 1001010101 1100110101 0101111101 100111101001 1101010110 11010101110 0101000111 1111011111 1101101101 1111011111 0111010101 1110011110 1100111101 1111001101 1101011101 1101110111 110010101011 0110000101 1101010101 110110111 1111111101 1101111101 11011100101 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 7493
- Average number of words per stanza: 1310
- Amount of lines: 336
- 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; how, her, and, thy, may, his, of, no, or, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, and, of, we, or, his are repeated.
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