This is an analysis of the poem The Winged Mariners that begins with:
Through the wild night, the silence and the dark,
Through league on league of the uncharted sky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb cXcc dede fgfg hdhd idid jkjk ibib khkh lmlm mdmd caca nknk acac cmcmXlglg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011010101 1111000101 10011010001 01001 1001011101 1101010011 0101010111 0101 0111111101 0111111110 1101001111 0101 1011010001 01010010001 1101001101 1111 1111001101 0111111101 1011010001 0101 1111011001 10110111001 1111110001 0111 1001010001 1011110101 0011011111 0101 0111000111 1101011111 01010010111 1101 1100111111 1111010111 01011100111 1111 11010011101 1001010111 1111010011 1101 0101100101 11010000101 0101010111 1101 1111110001 11010101011 11010010101 1101 0101110001 1101011111 0101110111 1101 1001010101 1001011101 1101000101 0101 1101110011 0011011001 0111110101 1101 1101110111 10010100101 1101110111 1011 0111001111 1101110001 1011110101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, the, here are repeated.
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- summary of The Winged Mariners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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