This is an analysis of the poem Calais, August 15, 1802 that begins with:
FESTIVALS have I seen that were not names:
This is young Buonaparte's natal day,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111011 0011000011 1001110101 1011010101 0101010111 10111010101 0101111111 0011101111 0101111101 1111000101 01000011101 1001110111 1011110101 0100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
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