This is an analysis of the poem The Distant Ship that begins with:
The sea-bird's wing, o'er ocean's breast
Shoots like a glancing star,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dXde caXa efefbgbg hghgXcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110101 110101 101100001 110111 11110111 111101 11111101 010111 111001001 010101 010110101 110101 01010111 100101 11011100 111101 010010101 010101 01110111 0101001 11111111 1011101 11011101 1001001 11010101 0100101 11111101 010111 11010101 0100111 11011111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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