This is an analysis of the poem Love’s Voyage that begins with:

As once I sat upon the shore
There came to me a fairy boat,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbcbccdedeefgfggdhdiidddddjgjggabaXbiXidXkikhidkdkkalall
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 11010101 01110101 11011101 101101010111 01110101 01011101 10011101 11011101 010111010101 01011101 11010101 01010001 11011101 01100010010001 01010101 11011101 01010111 11010101 010101110101 11110101 01011100 01111111 01010111 010101011101 10110101 01011101 11010101 10110111 110111010101 11000101 01011111 01011101 010111001 010101110111 11010001 11011100 10111111 100010100 111111011111 100111001 010100110 11000101 11010101 11011011000100 01001101 01111101 11010101 11011100 100101010110 11110101 11010101 11110111 11010101 111101110101 10010011 00010101 11011111 11011101 110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 421
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, like, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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