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

À Maxime du Camp
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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcdefeXXgXfheheXdfdfgXgXfgihgjhjcfcfdXdXfbfkjcefXfjfjfcfcbXifijffffifffeieibjfjkfXfcccbhbXjhjhcdcdfadahkXkkckcgkgkXlblkbikifgfgmimibikiciciecmdXedXdfnfn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 155,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101 1 101010111 01011001101 111010001001 00101001111 11011111010 10100010001 1100010110010 100011111000 11001010100 10100111011 0010010111000 01001010001 01010011111 01011111010 0111010101 10010101010 1011001111 1001110111 110101100 1011011111 11010111100 1101100001 10111001101000 101010101 1 1101110111 01111110011 101001111111 101010101101 1110110101 1010110101101 11110101001 1010101101 11011011010110 011001111 01001101100101 11100100101 11001010101 10010001010 0101010011001 110010100101 1011001001 1101011001 01010010111 101100101100 1111101010 10110100101 010101001010 010010010101 1 0101001100 110111010101 11010011100 1001010111 1101001111 10111011101 100010001101 11001010101 111011 1 1101 11110101 0101010001 1010111101 01010101001 0101010111 1011010011 0100010101 01010010111 100100101 011110001 11010111101 0101101010 010111110001 1111011110 1101010111 011010101 101110111101 0110011101 101110010011 1101010100 10100010001 1010011010 0110101001 1101101100 10010111 1001010101 1 1111 1 1100 1001011101 100010111 0101000101 010010000101 10111011100 010010110100101 1101011100 1011010001 01001101011 01011100101 010010010010 0101001001 1000101111 11010100 11010100100 1001111100 100101000100 11011101101 10010100100 11110110111 1011011000100 10011101100 10100010100 1001001110 1 10010110100 01011101011111 010011110100 101001000100010 1111110111 10111101010001 1110011100 01111011100100 101011001 101101111101 1101110101 1111011011 111110011110 111111110 11111110 010111111010 101001001 001100101 111110100100 101010111 001100111 01001111101 110110110 001011101 010010111010 110010010111 001111011010 11111101 1 11110001110 011011111 001111111110 1111111101 1111010111 01011111101 010011101111 0000110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6487
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1126
  • Amount of lines: 155
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, as, desire, you, my, stay, can are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, a, the are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase desire connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Voyage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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