This is an analysis of the poem The Bells Of Ostend that begins with:
No, I never, till life and its shadows shall end,
Can forget the sweet sound of the bells of Ostend! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabbccbXddeeaaffaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011101111 101011001010 01101001011 11101111001 11011001001 11101011101 11001001001 01101001011 01001111101 1010011001001 101101011001 11011111101 11001011111 101001101101 11001101011 0010010011101 11011111001 11001011001 111011101111 101011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1021
- Average number of words per stanza: 195
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, the, i are repeated.
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