This is an analysis of the poem Roving Men that begins with:

Take the boat to the bounds of the ocean,
Away to the ends of the earth:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBCBdede ffghhghhiaai bbjbbjkkalla bbihhiaahaah aBCBXehe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,12,12,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010010 01001001 1010011110 01101011 1010010 1001001 10010010 1001011 1110101 10010111 0010101 1110111 1010101 1010101 1110101 1110101 1110111 1110111 1010111 1011111 1110001 0010011 0010100 1110101 10100101 1110100 1011101 1111111 1110111 1010101 1011111 1110111 0110111 1000101 0111100 1111001 1010001 1011111 1011101 1110111 1111111 1110111 0011111 01111001 1011010010 01001001 1010011110 01101011 10111110 1101101 11010011 1001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, our, and are repeated.

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

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