This is an analysis of the poem Sailor’s Pleasure that begins with:
When the time comes, as it will, that I go to sea no longer -
Though maybe, please the Lord, that day’ll not be yet -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef bdbd dgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110011101110 11010111101 1110010011110 01010111001 110101111110 01111001011 10111011010 11001011111 110011111010110 1111101101 10100001101001010 101010101011011 11001001111010011 1010101000111 100101011011 1001111011101 110101110110110 10010101101101 011110011110 1100010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; to, i, and, of, his, they, re are 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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- summary of Sailor’s Pleasure;
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- idea of the verse;
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