This is an analysis of the poem The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Fifth that begins with:

Such are thy views, DISCOVERY! The great world
Rolls to thine eye revealed; to thee the Deep... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdecfghgijjgklahmaaikaXjjngjjobljjjnjahjpjhfailollljjgldajgfjgkfmjoghXqjbkgegfnrjnhgnhjfjjjafjhfdfiamlkjjaedahjfjjgialmXibkjnijhXlaeadhmhaejjhcadmapjhkmaghgaajgfggjfrsfrdacaagakaXahjgihijgjfjengjjihjcjjtjgaohumfXnjdaicgdhhgdjhjjodhldddlkkaggujjjgfacjbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 333,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110100011 1011010101 11010100100 100110001001 0101100101 1110010100 0111010111 1101010101 1101010101 11000110111 1100110101 1011010101 1111010101 1011010101 0111001101 1111010101 1111001101 11001000101 1011010101 1101011111 01001010111 1101110101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010100 11000111001 1101010100 0111111101 1101000101 1001010111 01010110100 0111000011 1101011111 1101010101 01 11110111 0101010101 1111011011 0101000101 11110100001 1101010111 1001011111 1101010101 1100110111 01001101111 1101101101 1101010001 110101 1101 1101011111 1101010101 11011101101 1101000101 0111010111 1101011101 1101100101 1101010111 1101010001 110101 1101 1111010101 1101010111 0101010111 0111010101 1101010101 0111100001 11001011101 1101010100 11001011101 1101110101 1101010101 1111100100 1101110111 1101110101 1101110001 1101010101 0111011111 0101000101 0101010111 1001000101 11110011101 0101110111 1111001101 0101110100 110100001 10001000101 1101001011 011000101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110101 01010010011 1111100101 0101010101 0101101011 1001001111 1010111 1101 1111110101 01010001001 0111110101 01001011101 01111100111 1101110111 11010100101 1101011001 1001010111 0101110101 0100011101 1111010101 0101110101 1101010101 0111011011 1101010101 0101010101 11110011101 01011000101 0011010101 1101110001 10111101 111 1101010110 01110101101 1101010101 1101010001 0011010111 0101010101 1101011101 1101011101 0101000111 1001010100 0101001101 0101110011 1101011001 1011000101 0101110101 01000100111 0111010101 1111011101 11110110101 0111010111 1101010101 1111010111 1101010101 1101110100 0111010001 1101110101 1011010011 1001011111 01010 10101 01010100101 0111111101 0101010101 1110010001 10010101001 1101010101 1001010101 01000110101 1011010101 0101011101 1011010101 0101110001 11110101010 1011010011 0101010101 01001010101 1011110101 10010010111 1101010111 01010110011 1001111111 010101 1100 1101010001 0111001101 11101110001 1011010101 1011010101 1011100001 11011101001 1101011001 0111011101 10110010111 10111100101 0101110111 1011010101 1100010101 1011010101 01010101001 011010101 111101101 1001110101 0011011111 11010010011 0101110101 11010011101 0111001101 0101100101 1001010111 1101111101 0101010100 1101011101 0101011101 0111010101 01010010101 01010001010 1011000101 1101000101 01010100101 00010101010 0101010101 1101010101 1001010110 01011101011 1101110111 1101010111 11001010101 1011010111 1101010100 0101011011 01001110111 0011010001 001000101 1101010101 1101010101 10101010101 1101110101 10110111010 0101100101 10111111001 1101010001 0100010101 1111010101 0101111111 0101010100 0101010011 0100010 111 1101011111 01010001101 1111110111 1101101101 110101101110 1101010101 1001110111 1100010100 1001010001 0111101101 0100110101 1111010100 0100010101 1101011111 1111000111 0101010111 0101010100 1101110111 11001011101 0101010101 0101001101 1101110101 0101110101 1001110111 0101010101 1101010111 1101110101 0101011101 1101000101 11001010011 1001110010 1011001011 0101000101 0101010100 0101010101 0101001101 11011100001 1101110101 0101011111 1111011110 1111010001 0101010101 0011101101 1101010100 1011110011 1110011101 0111100100 0111110111 1111010101 0101010011 11010011101 1101010101 01111001010 0101010101 0101101101 1100110101 1011010101 110101 1101 1101111100 1101010001 01001110101 0101010111 0111011101 0100010101 1101110011 0101010101 1101010101 1001010101 0011111001 1111111100 01010101001 11111001001 0111010011 1001010101 1101011101 1101010101 0111011101 1001011101 1101011101 0101101101 1101011011 0101010111 0111011101 1011101101 0011010101 01101010101 11 11011101 1101011101 11010010101 0101010101 0100010101 1100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 14104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2471
  • Amount of lines: 333
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to, and, his, thy, of, in, come are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gold is repeated).

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