This is an analysis of the poem The Voyage that begins with:
As at times a moonbeam pierces
Through the thickest cloudy rack, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc XdXd XeXe Xdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 1010101 10111110 1110101 10111110 10100101 10101010 1010101 10101111 0011101 11101010 1010101 10101010 1110101 101010011 1010101 10101110 1110111 11111010 0111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
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