This is an analysis of the poem The Missionary - Canto Third that begins with:

Come,--for the sun yet hangs above the bay,--
And whilst our time may brook a brief delay... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeaffccggaahhiijjiibbkkbbjjkkllkkbbmmaemmkkkXiiddaaiinnjjkkXkcchhjjkkkkiibbiijjggiikkhhooccoonnjjnniiiinnjjjjaaiiddbbaaccppaajjnniiaabboommaaooaakkjjiiiinnqqbbmmkkiiiipphhcciiaannoojjrrppjjiihhkkiijjggaajjjjggoojjoobbaacXhhlljjkkggiidiiiibbiihhrrkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 404,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 1111110101 0101110001 1111010111 1110010111 1001010101 0101011101 1101001101 11001100100 1101010111 1001010101 1011110101 1101110101 1111011001 1101111101 01111100101 1101010111 111111111101 11100100101 1100010101 1101010111 0101110101 1111111101 11010111101 10111010111 11010100001 0101110101 11010011111 0101011111 1111010111 0101110101 11101101001 1101001101 1100110101 1101010111 0111010011 1101101111 1101010101 1111000101 11001011101 010010010101 1100010101 11010110101 1001010001 1110110001 0100110100 11001111101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010111 01010101001 11001001110 1111100101 1101000001 1101110111 1101110101 0101010111 1110110101 1101110111 0111110101 1101110101 1011100101 1111110111 0101010101 1011010111 1100011111 1111110010 0011010111 1111010111 101111111111 1111111011 1011010101 1111010001 1011110101 1111100001 01010100111 10100011101 110101111 1101010111 1001010101 10111100101 0111010001 1101110101 0101110101 0101110101 1100010101 0101100101 1111010101 1101110101 0100110001 1101110001 1111001101 010101011 01111101001 1101111101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011101 10110101001 010011001010 11111001010 0101110101 110100101 0101010101 1001110101 0101001111 0111111101 1101010101 1111000101 1101111101 1111010101 1111101101 0100110101 10110101010 010100001010 1111110101 1111100101 01001011101 0101010001 1011010111 0101011111 1100100101 0101111101 0101111111 1111100101 1101111111 1101000111 111010101 1111000101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010001 1101010111 0101010101 1011010011 1011110101 0101111111 1001101101 1110010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101110101 11010111001 0101010001 0111010111 1101111101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010101 0101011101 1110110111 1011110111 1101000101 1110010101 1011111101 10110010101 0101011101 1111110101 11110101011 11010111001 1001001101 00110110011 1101011101 11110100101 0101111101 0101010111 1111110001 1011111101 1101010100 0101110111 1111011101 0101011101 1101010101 0101110111 1001010011 1101010101 1001010101 1111011001 11001110001 11001010101 1101010101 0111111111 11010010001 0101010011 01100010101 1101010111 01110011001 1111110001 1101000101 11011000110 11010101010 01110010111 1111010101 1111111001 1111011101 1111010101 1101011111 1100010111 1011011101 1100010101 1100010101 11110100111 0101010111 1111010101 1001011101 1101001001 1001011101 11100010101 1011100101 11001111001 01010111001 1101010101 01010111001 1101010101 1111110101 1111010101 1110010111 0101111111 1101011101 11111101001 11111100001 0111001101 0101001101 0101010111 0101010101 01011100101 1101010100 0101100101 1001010101 00110100101 10011111111 1101011101 0101010101 1011010001 1101010101 1100011101 1101111101 11011111001 1101110101 1111 110101 1001001101 1101000101 1111010011 1101010001 01011110101 1001011101 01110100101 1111011101 11001010101 11010101010 11110101010 1001010011 110010100111 1101111101 1101110101 1111010111 11011101 10111101001 1011110111 1101011101 1101111111 0101010101 0101010011 1101000101 1101011101 100110001 11101101001 1001010001 111010101 1101011111 01010010001 110110101 1111101101 1100011001 1001110101 1101010101 10011110101 0111000101 0101111101 0111010111 1101000101 1011110101 1110110101 01011100101 1011001101 1011011101 0111000111 0111010101 0001011101 11110101001 1001010101 1101011101 1111010101 0001110011 01001010101 1011110101 01011100101 1101101111 1100010011 1101000101 11001010001 1111110111 1111111111 1111100111 11001100101 01010001001 0101010101 10001010001 110100111 1101010101 1101011101 0101110111 0101110101 1111010111 1101110111 0101010001 1011110101 1111110011 1101010101 1111110111 1011010101 11110110101 1111111101 11001010011 1001011101 1111001101 11010011001 0101111101 11010011101 1111110111 1111110001 1110110101 1111111101 1101111101 1010111101 1011010101 0111011111 10011001101 11110000101 1011011101 1101100101 1111011101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010101 1111110111 1011010101 0101011101 1101110101 1111000101 1101010101 1110110101 1111010101 1101010101 11110101101 0101110101 1101100101 01011100101 1101010111 0111111111 1101000101 0101011101 01111001001 1011011111 01110110101 1011010101 01100111001 0111001101 1101011111 01100001101 0101010101 1101011101 1101110011 1101000101 1100011000 0100000101 0101110101 11010100101 0101111111 0110100101 0111010001 1101010101 11110101001 110110001 01010011100 11001111101 11001010101 1110000101 0111111111 1111110111 1011011101 0111110101 1101000101 0111101101 1101100101 1111011111 1100111101 1101111011 1111010110 1111111100 1101011111 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 17533
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3158
  • Amount of lines: 404
  • 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; their, of, to, and, i, her, my, day, saw, his, curse, he, protect, thy, your, she, forget, no, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, both, of, the, say, she, let, to are repeated.

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