This is an analysis of the poem The Drunken Boat that begins with:

As I drifted on a river I could not control,
No longer guided by the bargemen's ropes....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb cded cfXf cghg Xded eeie cejk facl dcac meno eboc Xccc bcii cibi jjjc cpcc cccg epce kake Xcjc jccc cibi dqme gfnf bhch X cXcb cdff ccXX jche dace icae bebk Xfcl hXcc cemc jjog Xaae bcic cbbc XrXd cecj cccg cpbe babq dXmc eimX ccai jqbe hjcs qdcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101011101 11010101001 1010110100 110100101 11111101111 10111010101 11100111011 101011011101 010100010101 110110111 111110101000 1101110001 1011101011 1101010001 1101010101 1111101001 101100010101 01011011101 1011011001 101011011 1111010001 01001100101 010110001010 1111100111 1001010011 100110101 101110111 0010101001 11110010101 110111001101 110101010101 1111110111 11010101010 110101001 0010010011 1100100101 1101111001 11010001001 01101001110 1001000100 111101001 0100101001 1101011010 1101010101 11101110100100 1101010011 0100010111 1011010010 010111111 00100110001 1010000101 1100110001 101011011001 1010101101 010001011 0010110101 110011011010 0011010111 01010101100 1100111111 01010011101 0111100101 111110101 10111010101 111101101111 0101111111 1101110101 1111011101 110101101001 110100010101 1010101100 11111101001 11010100101 110101011111 1101010101 10011110111 11100010100 10100010100 1101001100 010011010010 1010101010 100100111 0101001001 1101010101 11110000001 1001111101 1110011111 101011101 11111111011 01010101010 111111011 11111111001 011101010 00111101 0100101011010 1101010101 1011011101 0101010101 1010101011 101011101 010101010 1101010010 1111011100 101011011 1110100101 101111111 10010101101 101010100110 0101101111 0010010001 11101010101 01011010001000 10101010100 0101110100 10111101 10100101001 1101101010101 101010110010 01101010111 111010101011 110110011001 111110010 00101010101 010001011101 11001110111 110010010100 111010010101 101101101110 01011001 111011100100 1101110111 110101001 111011110111 11011010101 0101001101001000 110001100 0110010010010 1101101001 1010100011001 01110101011 10010001 1111001010 01101001011010 1010010110 1100101 11110100100 101100101010 0010111110 1010101001 11010010101 101010010010 101001000101 1010010100011 10101101101 100110100101 1101001011 1010110101 11001101100 0011110101 010101101100 1010011111 011010100111 0111110001 11101010101110 11011101010 11110100010 010101111010 01111111111 111010101 11011001001 11101000101 1110100110101 1110110101 11011101001 11101101101 110100101010 100111010 11000101011 010101011100 10101100101 010001001010 1110100110101 000101010110 01010001001 11110001010 1110110000110 110010011100 11100111011 1100111101 1111111100 1111011110 10111101010 111111001 01010100010010001 1110010010 101101011101 01010011101101 101101111110 10101011010 1101010001011 1110101011 11110101010 111011111010 10111100110 100100101 11101111 10010111010 10101101101 01011111111 00001011110 10110101011 10100100010 011010100 011101111000 1010111101 111001010010 11101110010100101 1010101010010 0110101011001 1111001011 101001010001110110 10111110010 00110111001 010001100101 01010010110111 110010010 100111010010011 10110110110 0101010001 111010110010 101001010110 110101110110101 10111111101011 111011011001010 10111001000 1001000110 1101000100110000101 111001100101 011010001001 0101000101 101011000010100 111011111 011000110100101 10101010010010 1101101010 111111010100100 110010010100101 111110 10010100101 1110010110 110101001001 10010001001 11001000100100 10101010110111 10011010011 10101010110 1001010110 111101010110 00111101101 10101110 111010011111 01010100111 011110110 10111100110101011 1111101010 01001101011101 1100111001 1111001101111 11110001 111011100101 1101010001010 11111110010 101001101011111 1101001001 11110100100111 0100101010 1001110101 11100100101 010101110101 1100100101 101000001010 11100111011 0100101010110 010100110000 111100011100 1111000001110 10100111001100 1111111011001 110101110010 1101111111110 100100101100110 111101100101010 1111111110010 010110010110001 1110001011 0110101010 011101010101 11111011011 100100100010 110101001110 111010010101 0101101 11110101010 111011110110 10111100110 1110100101 110100011 010010111010 101100111 0101111110 00010010001 110110101010 111101000 111010101010 0111110 1010111101 11101010010 110110010100110 1010101100010 011010101101 11101011 1101001011001 1011110010 00101011100 010001101101010 1010010110011 1100100100100 111010010011 101101101110 010100101 11011001010100 101101011010 11110010101 11111111111 1110111001010 101011001 0100100101010 0110111100010 11100110101 011010001001 010100011 1010110100010100 1101010101 1010010001101 01101010010010 10101001010 11011110100100 100010101110 11111101 1000100010101 11101010111 101010010010 1010010001001 10100100001001 1010101011010 1001101011 11010010110 11011011 11110110111 001101010101 10101110 1010011111 11010100111 01110101101 1101011001010 11011010101 010011010111010 11001010101 1111111101 1111001 11011001001 1101000101 1110110111010 1010010101011 110101001 11101001101 1001011010 10011110010 1110010101 01101011100 1101101010 01000101010 11101011011 010000100110110 10101000110100 1100010100 11110010000110 101001110001100 0001100111111110 1010111010 1011111111110 100100101100110 101110100101010 1111111110001 0110100100001 11010011011 01011010010 01110101101 110111011011 1000100101 111010111 1110010010101 0101011 1110101010 1111110111 0111110110 1101001101 10010111010 1101000111 0101111111 101010101 00010010001 10101001110 111010001011 1010101010 0101111100 101011111 11001010010 11010110101 10110100010 011101111 1101010101 10011101110 1110010001 010101111 10110011001 100110101 1100110100 11101001010 101101101110 01010101010 1101101110 1001011101 0101010101 1111111001 11011101010 010011001000 11000101110 11011100010 110110101 0110100101 0101000101 11001101000 111111001 110101110110 1100110101 1100110101 11100110101 110100101 10010111001 010101101001 110111101 101110101 10010011000 10010000001 10110110101 111001100 10101100101 1010100101 1111011010 0011010101 100111011 1110001111 01010100111 011111101 11011100101 11101010101 111110011110 1100111001 11101110111 1111010111 1101100101 11010111110 11101001110 110011010101010 10110001001 111011101 1001101110 1001110010 111001010 01110011110 1100100101 10100001010 1110011100 0100101110 010100110000 101010100010 11100000111 11001101010 0001011111 1010111010 110111101 11101111110 11110101010 111111111 01111010001 111000101 0110101010 0111101101 10110111110 101010101 1101010110 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 130
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 507
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, in, and, have, i, my, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, i've, nor, and, the, a, or are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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