This is an analysis of the poem Sails that begins with:
Hails from Wales,
Does Sails....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa aaaabb ccddbXXbeeaXbbffggbbeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 11 110111101 0011100101 1011100111 011100101 11001011011 10011111 11101101011 001101101011 101101101 00111100111 010101111 10 1001 00101 10100111 111100101 1100100111 010110100 1011101111 011010111 1011101011 1011101001 1001001001 110110111 0011110111 011100111 1010111101 1101010110 1111011110 1101011000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; you, and, his are repeated.
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- summary of Sails;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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