This is an analysis of the poem In The Glass-Bottomed Boat that begins with:
In the glass-bottomed boat
of our lives, we putter along...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbefffghihhfcj kiakjXcilc faiaffkjmXghc DDmenfoXghhd oXcfknkXackdikf iXkfpm ckXkkmXnnpiaLL
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,10,13,12,15,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001101 01111001 1010101 1001 110100 1011 0101010110 111 110111 010 01010 0110 1010 01010 11100 01010 10001 1111 11101 0111 1111 1011 11 11 100101 11 01011 01010 1101 1101 01001010 1100101 01010 001 111 011 100 110111 110 101 111 111 101010 001 0101 1010100 0101 00101000 0111 01010 01010 1000101 1101 1100 111 11101 1 1011 11101 10010 1 111 011010 1100101 01101 1110 111 10111 10001 1000101 10010 01010 0111 0110100 01 11001 01101 1111 1111 010001 1111 10100 11101 0110101 111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, sail, its, spell are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, so, its, intimating, as, spell, halfway are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines we, there are repeated).
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