This is an analysis of the poem In The Doldrums that begins with:

Friends!
Have you, too, noticed that calm which descends... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbccaa ddeefffaaagghhddiii aajjkkffjj ddaXddggXdjjff llmmmgghhdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,19,10,14,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111011101 010101 1111 0101110101 01010111010 1111010 1101100101 1011 1001010101 1101 11111111010 1101010 1111011011 10110101101 1101001101 1001010101 1011110001 0101 1101 10010101 110111 1111111101 1011010101 111110 1 001110101 110101 1111 111001 01010101110 1111010 10010111110 10011101110 1111010101 1001010111 110101001110 01111111010 110101011101 1111001101 11010101010 11110 1001000101 1101 11011101 1101010101 11110 1011 11010100010 11011100010 1111000101 1111011001 101101 01 0101 01 110100101 1111111101 1101 0101 1111001011 1111000101 0111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, and, be are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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