This is an analysis of the poem No weary helmsman ever fled for harbour that begins with:
‘Non d'atra et tempestosa onda marina'
No weary helmsman ever fled for harbour...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcddccbaXXbbcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100010100 11011101110 00111100101 1110101101 1011110111 1010111011010 10101111 00100110111 10111110010 1011111110010 10010111101 0101110101 00111111010 11110110001001 11110111111 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; i is repeated.
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