This is an analysis of the poem The Sailor's Garden that begins with:
There's a soft wind singing in the idle rigging,
High tide splashing, and a young pale moon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb acac cdXd bdbd eded efef ababXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110001010 111010111 10010101010 1011010111 110010101110 11001011111 1101010110 11101011101 10010111010 1001010101 10011111110 1001111111 11100111011 11010110101 101011111011 10111011111 111010101010 1001110101 11110100010 10111011111 1101011111110 110101010111 10101010101010 00011011111 1101010101010 110101111111 1100001111110 010101111101 11011100010 1101111101 110110101010 111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, five, years, ago, i, that, home, june, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words five, when, oh, home are repeated.
The author used the same words i, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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