This is an analysis of the poem Seafarer that begins with:
And learn O voyager to walk
The roll of earth, the pitch and fall...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba bXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 01010111 11011111 11011101 11011101 01010101 01010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Seafarer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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