This is an analysis of the poem They Made Sails that begins with:
In the old raftered loft
Where the winds blow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbdbedXd Ac XeXEXfAF XgagXhXhhea X ibXib AccbcbcbabXaXajkjk XhhhXeXEcfAF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,8,11,1,5,18,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011001 1011 1110010 10101 10111 011011 101110 10101 001110 00111 0011001 111 1010 0101110 1010 0101010 1010 1111 0011001 1101 101011 10101 11101 10011 111110 10101 1011010 1010101 11111 10110 0101010 10100 11101 01101 101010 00110 10111 0011001 111 110010 10101 110010 10111 1111111 00111 110111 11001 101101111 00111 1101011 101101 101110 10111 101110 10111 101101 1001 101101 101101 1010 0101010 10010100 0101010 111101 11111 0011001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of They Made Sails;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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