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

Emis - young, twenty-eight-
reached this Syrian harbor in a Tenian ship, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbbXXXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101101 101001000101 01010011 1110010 1111111101 0100010100111 0110011011010 01100110110 1111111 00110101 101101100 111100010 0100111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 513
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; he is repeated.

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