This is an analysis of the poem The Path Of The English that begins with:
When the racing sea-tides flow,
And the strong ships seaward go,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaccbC XdedcceC ccfcccfC ddgdccgC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1011101 101001010 1011101 1110101 1011101 11101110 10110101 0101110 1010101 101110010 10111001 1111111 1110111 11110110 10110101 1110101 00101111 111110010 10100101 10110101 00100111 11101010 10110101 10010101 00100101 111011110 0100101 0110111 1110111 111111110 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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