This is an analysis of the poem A Channel Crossing that begins with:
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,
Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas whence only the sun was... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbeeffgXffeehhiieejjggeeffggaakkllmmccnnnnnnggaaeekkddbbggggiihhaaoo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011101111101101 10100111111100111 111101111111001110 1110011111011101010 10100100010110100111 10100101110100111 1111011100111001001 10010111110101111 100011010011110100101 10110110011101101011011 101110100011100010110010 1011001001001101001010 101101111000110100111 10100111001011001001 1010011110100111 1011101101110001101 110110101101101101 10110110100101100101 1101101101101100111 111100110111100111 01011010011101111 1100101100110100101 10111001011101000101 011101110110110111 1111101000100101 1111010011110110101 1110101111000111001 1100110100100111001 10101001111101101 10101100110101100101 01001001001001001101 0101100010011010010001 00101010011011101001 101001001001011111011 110100100010111001 00100100111011010011 0101100100111011111 001110011010100111 11010001011110101 1101101101100111001 010010101011001110111 1111101110001110111 1100110101101110101 1101001001011101101 0100100100100111111 0101100110110110101 1111011010110110111 10001001011001001001 111110101100101101 0101001101111101111 1111001100100101001 1011110110101110111 110010110011011001101 101111101100110101 00111001101110001101 10111001101001001011 1010010011010110101 0010011001100100111 01011010100100101 1011100101101110110 10110110100110101101 10010010011110101 1111101001011001001 11001101101101100111 00111001001110010010 010011011111101110 1101110100100100101 10110100110101110111 01001001011001101001 1110110100010010010101 011010101101010010011 1011010010011010100111 010010100100100101 1011011100101100010101 010101100111110101 1011110110110001101001 1111100100100100111 101101011011101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6543
- Average number of words per stanza: 1188
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 83 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, such, in, that, as, too, power are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, as are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase air connects the lines.
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