This is an analysis of the poem Sailing Home that begins with:
In the redwood house sailing off
into the ocean,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbbcdbXXa edeXfdXdgca fdhfhbfgdXedad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111101 00010 1101 11100 111010 1101 100010 1110 1111 101110 0001 011 11011 111111 110101 1100 10010010 1001001 110011 10110010 1010101 1011000010010 01111 11101 0101 11001 01001011 1110 1011 0010 11100010 10110010 10110 111101 001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, i, utterly, as 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.
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- summary of Sailing Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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