This is an analysis of the poem A Boat On The Sea that begins with:
A BOAT on the sea, my boat,
Eager and frail! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb XbdbXcdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 1011 111111 11101 111100 11110 111101 1101 111111 11101 1100101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
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- summary of A Boat On The Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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