This is an analysis of the poem Hongree And Mahry that begins with:
The sun was setting in its wonted west,
When HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcd aXXccabX XadefXghbiXjkX ahbXXgXbdd XlbcjbX XlXaiddaX aimdiXklcXnafXXd ieelbbdXe ibXadbfamdabXiX bXXagfXfiX ndllXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,14,10,7,9,16,9,15,10,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111000101 1110100100 1101000101 1001011101 0111010101 11011001101 1110100100 10010101010 01010010100 1101110101 11010000111 0101010101 1110100100 0101010110 1101000111 1100010100 0100010101 11010100111 1111010100 1101010101 0001010001 1101000101 0101010101 0101110000 1101011000 11000010001 1110100100 0101000100 01001100101 1111110101 11010101110 11010101010 1101010101 1110100100 01110010101 0111011101 0101010101 1110100100 0101010001 1001000101 1101010101 0100010100 010000101110 11110101010 10110100100 0111010101 00101011101 1101010111 11001110001 1111011101 0011011001 1101110100 01011101010 01001110101 1101011101 0100010101 10101111101 1101111111 01011111111 1101110101 1100010111 11011010100 11010101010 1111111101 0101110101 1111011001 11011100110 1110100100 01000100010 111111110 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010100 1101010001 10010100010 110101111010 11010010101 10100111010101 1101010111 0110100100 1100011101 1101010101 11111100110 1101001101 0101110111 1100010011 1011010001 1101010011 1100110001 11110101010 0101111101 011101111000 1010110110101 111101110100 1110100100 0111010101 1011101101 0110111101 1111010101 00010101001 1111010101 111101001000 0111010101 0101110101 1100000101 1101011101 11010111010 1111010101 0110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; her, of, his, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word chassoores at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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