This is an analysis of the poem A Song Before Sailing that begins with:
Wind of the dead men's feet,
Blow down the empty street... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabbccddeeff ccgg ddhh ffff Xgii aahh jjee ffcc AabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 110101 00110101 0111 110101 110001 11111101 010101 110011 011101 01110011 111111 110101 100101 01011111 101101 110101 111111 01011101 010111 110101 0011101 010010101 010101 110110 110111 11111111 110001 110011 111101 00110101 011101 100111 010001 11011101 010100 111111 011111 11010001 010101 100111 110101 01010011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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