This is an analysis of the poem Canto I that begins with:
And then went down to the ship,
Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXccdbedfdfegcXXaebdfhfacfidffXcffXbbXXXXdihXiXbcXXbjX XhgedXXXfjXdXXXXefh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 110101101011 1111111111 11010111010 1001011010 111001010 1001011010 111010110010 101111101111 1001011101010 11100101010 00100111010 10011110010 010011 10111101010 10111010011 0101010111001 01111 1011100011000 1101011 1101110 1110010101 1111111010110 1111001001011 110100101001 11011001001 0101001011011 111001 1101001000101 0110011111 110101110 11010111 101101101 11010011010 100111011111 10011101 1101001 0100111100 1000101 1101100101001 1111100 11100111100 10011011 111100101 1001001011110 100101110101 10011110011 1101010101 110101 11101011101010 110110010 1101010 100011011100 111111010110100 111101111101 110110100101 11111111110 1100111111110010 10010111111 110111011 100101101010 10011111010 110 1111 11100111100 101110101011 1110011001 11010111001010 0100010011010 1111101110101 1101 1000 00101001011010 10100010001101000010 1011110111 1001010100011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1674
- Average number of words per stanza: 292
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, with, of, golden are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Canto I;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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