This is an analysis of the poem Calais, August 1802 that begins with:
IS it a reed that's shaken by the wind,
Or what is it that ye go forth to see?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacdcXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0001110101 1100111101 11010100101 1111011111 1101110011 01110010101 0101011100 1101110101 010100101010 1101010101 01110001010 1111110001 11010001110 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; when is repeated.
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