This is an analysis of the poem A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags that begins with:
A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags,
A rude and natural causeway, interposed ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcdeffXXagehdhihejckjXgkakeaehhhakcXccdbeheeihfXhXdehekeXhheifgehlclbfhkhfdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101001111 011100111000 0101010101 0111010101 0101001100 1111110101 1101010101 1101010001 100100111001 1101010111 1011111101 0111010001 1101011101 1011111101 1101010101 0011101101 1100110111 0101011101 1101000111 1001010101 11010101110 01010100101 10010101001 11010100101 0111010101 1101000100 0101011111 1101001101 01110110111 1000010001 1101100101 0011010111 11110110111 1100011001 11000010101 1100111101 0101110001 1101010101 1111110001 1101110101 0101110111 0101010011 1101110101 01010011100 10110100111 0111010101 0110110001 0101011101 1001010001 1000110101 1110111101 001101010010 0101110101 100011001010 1100110101 1001100111 1101101101 011111011111 1101110101 1101011111 1111011110 0100010101 1101100101 0111001101 0100010101 1110011011 11010000111 0101000111 0101010011 01001010101 1011010101 1110000101 1101110100 1101000111 1111111101 0101001101 10010011101 110110011001 11001010101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3464
- Average number of words per stanza: 620
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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; and, or, its, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, of are repeated.
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