This is an analysis of the poem In The Shadows that begins with:
I am sailing to the leeward,
Where the current runs to seaward ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb dXedde XXfggf Xcfaaf ccaXXa ddgdXg dXhiih ddfddf iijddj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010 10101010 111 10101010 11101010 011 10101010 10101100 001 10111010 100101010 111 10101010 10101011 111 10101110 10101010 1001 10101010 10101010 111 10101110 10111010 111 10100010 00100110 101 11111010 00101010 001 11101010 00111010 101 10101010 10100100 111 10101110 1010100 011 10111110 00111110 001 10010110 11101010 001 10101010 00101010 111 10101010 00101110 111 10101110 10100010 101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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 where is repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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