This is an analysis of the poem Stranded that begins with:
O busy ships! that smile in sailing
In a glory... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXbcd aefdaefd aegaegd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 0010 101 001000100010001 010110100 1010 111 1010101001101011 110111010 1110 101 11000100010001 100100010 0110 101 101011100110111 10110010 1110 001 10110010 1010 011 001010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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