This is an analysis of the poem Soul Ferry that begins with:

High and dry upon the shingle lies the fisher's boat to-night;
From his roof-beam dankly drooping, raying phosphorescent light, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh eeii jjff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010101010101 001110101010001 100011101010101 1010101011100101 111010101010101 101011101111101 100010101010101 101010101010101 110111101010101 100110101111111 111111101110001 1011100101110101 110010101010101 100010111010100 101110101110111 101011101110101 101010101010101 111010101010101 101010101010111 101010101010101 100001101110101 10101110010010111 111110101111101 101110101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, voices are repeated.

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