This is an analysis of the poem The Pilot that begins with:
From the Past and Unavailing
Out of cloudland we are steering: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbab Xccaddad aeeaXfaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111010 10101110 10101010 00111110 1110111 1111101 11111110 1011111 10111000 11101110 10001010 11111010 1011111 0011101 11101010 1111101 10100110 11101110 10111110 11100110 1110010 1111101 11101110 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and, we, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of The Pilot;
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- idea of the verse;
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