This is an analysis of the poem Grace Darling that begins with:
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day
In the year of 1838, a steamer passed through the Fairway... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb bbcc ddaX aaee fdggeehd bbfd ccdd eedf hhee ddff ceii jjkk eebb llii bbkk llXi eeaa bbmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011010010110101 0010101011011 010110101101010 101101010101001 1110000101011111 1011010011001 10101010101 0111010001101 1111001110111 10100101001001 1011110010101 1010101001010 10101101011001 101001100111 1011110011 110111011101 101000110101001 101001111101 1110010010101 101000001011011 1010100010011 110111000101001 10110101010001 1011101010111 1010101101001 1110101001 1011010100101 10011001010110001 010101010000010101 1110101011001 1101010110101 101110110100101 0101011111100101 01111100001 1010011010101 11101110001 01010101001101101 100111110101 101001110010010 110010001101 101101110110 110011010101 11100110101 110101000101001 1111101111101 111010111101 1101110110011 111011110010110 111101010111 11100111001 11101010100111 11010101111001 111010110101 1110110101 111010111101 1011101001011 1101010010011 11110101 11110100101 01110111001 1110010111001 11011011011001 00100100011101111 11001001101101 11010101011101 0111111101 1010011011100100 001011100110010001 101101001011 100101010001 0101101010001 010110011011011 01111010010101 111101010111110 1111110010110 110100110101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- 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; and, of, she, with, to, her, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words and, before at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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