This is an analysis of the poem Tis The Set Of The Sail -- Or -- One Ship Sails East that begins with:
But to every mind there openeth,
A way, and way, and away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXb XbXb ccbddb aXeffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011100 0111101 0111011 10111001 100110101 011011 1010011100 011101 11001100 010111 1111 10101 1011111 101001 1101 110111 101001 10101 11100111 101001 101001 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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