This is an analysis of the poem The Passing Of Sail that begins with:
I often think how sad that time will be
When no wind lifts a sail on any sea -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceeffgg ddhhiiaaaXjjkk llkkmmnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,14,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111100 1111011101 11110111001 0011011101 01110001011 1101000101 1111011011 1101111101 11110100100 01110100111 1111010111 0110010101 111101111 110111001 11011101001 11101100101 10101011001 0101110101 1011000111 1111011101 01001111101 101101010001 0101010110 1101110101 0111010111 1011010100 1001110101 0111100101 101100100110 01010101010 1111011101 1101011101 1111011111 1010111101 11110110111 0011110101 11010010111 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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