This is an analysis of the poem The Phantom Fleet that begins with:
The sunset lingered in the pale green West:
In rosy wastes the low soft evening star...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea fbfg hhhh aiai chch jiji ikilkdkdd fafaakakk adaddbdbb hkhlkelee imimmemee niniiiiii knlnnanaa okoklckcc kaka ekel gege ekek eiei icicXiXi cXccXiaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,4,4,4,4,4,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111000111 0101011101 1101111111 11011101001 1001110101 0111011101 11010100101 0101110101 0101110011 11010100111 1101010101 1101011101 10010010101 0101000101 0110000111 1101000010 110100011001 1101011111 0110010101 0101010001 1111010101 0101010001 1101010111 1101110111 0101010101 11010010111 1101010001 0101110111 10110100101 1111010111 1001110101 0101000101 1111010101 10001110111 1101010101 1101001100 1101010101 11010010111 11010100101 1111010011 01011010011111 11010101110 11011111001 01010101010 1101010011 11010101001 1111010111 1111110101 110010010101 101111111111 1101110011 1111010101 1011100101 01001110101 1011011111 1101110111 0001111011 0111110111 110011110101 1101110111 1101010011 1111110111 1111000100 1011010001 10110101001 1111010100 1101010101 101101010101 1011011111 1101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1111011101 01101010101 1101010101 0101010101 110111111111 1101110111 1011010101 0101011101 1111011101 1101010101 1111110101 1011010101 0101110111 110111010101 1101110011 0011010101 1111000100 1101110001 1101010101 11110101001 10010010101 0111000111 100101010111 1101110101 0101011101 0101011111 01110011001 11010100100 1011010101 1101010111 1001110001 011001010100 1011010101 1101110111 1101110011 0101111111 1101111101 11011100111 1111010101 0111111100 101101010010 1101010001 111100101110 1001010101 1001011101 1111110011 1111011111 0111011101 1001110111 0101000101 0101110001 1101111101 1101110101 1001110111 1101110101 0101010000 1101111101 1111010001 11010101010 1001110101 1111001101 0101010101 1011011101 0111110101 1101011101 1101110111 1001010101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 140
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, of, clouds, to, glad, thine are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, she, duty, hear, and are repeated.
The author used the same words we, look at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Phantom Fleet;
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- idea of the verse;
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