This is an analysis of the poem In Harbour that begins with:
I.
Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a babA aba babA X cdcd dcdXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,3,4,1,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111100111011 110100110111 00100111001011 11111 0101100101101 1011111110011 1100100100101 111001111110010 110111101111 111001101101111 11111 1 11001111010 1001111001 1111011110 11 101110101 1001001010 110110101 11111111110 00101100111 0111001110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, we, have, and, that, not are repeated.
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