This is an analysis of the poem Whether My Bark Went Down At Sea that begins with:
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Whether my bark went down at sea—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 101111110 10110100 1001010 1101010 111010 101100 00010001 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; whether is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whether is repeated.
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