This is an analysis of the poem Sailor's Farewell that begins with:
Lovely is the white town, and smiling it lies
With little green gardens underneath the blue skies,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff XXddXddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10001111001 010110101011 11101111101 1011011110001 010101011101 0110110111001 00110101010101 1110111110101 101110111011 1010110110111 11101010101 1011011110001 1011101101101 00100010010001 10101010110101 0011010111111 1100011110111 101010111110101 11110101010101 10101110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; place, all, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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