This is an analysis of the poem Portrait Of A Lady-2 that begins with:

Pilot boat, lighthouse,
Stiff green sea -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dXef gbcb chib jgdg XkXk XXaX jfXf Xeae aaha ciXi ilcl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 111 11110 1110 1101 00100 1010 1111 1001 00111 110110 0111 1110 1110 110101 1001 10010 0111 10011 101 11010 1001 01010 1101 11010 11110 11110 01100 01010 0101 01110 1101 10100 111 100010 1001 1111 0111 10110 0101 010010 11111 001100 11101 101110 1111 01110 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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