This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet : On Launching Some Bottles Filled With Knowledge Into The Bristol Channel that begins with:
Vessels of heavenly medicine! may the breeze
Auspicious waft your dark green forms to shore;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdeffeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 100100100101 0101111101 1111010101 0011010101 11010010101 0101010101 11010111001 0101000111 1101101101 1111010111 010110100101 01010010101 11010100101 0111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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