This is an analysis of the poem To My Godchild-Francis M. W. M. that begins with:

This labouring, vast, Tellurian galleon,
Riding at anchor off the orient sun,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcaaadd eeaXffeeXXghiiaahgh jjXkkllaammggllbbgg mmbbmmghXccclllXjjaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,19,19,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001100100 10110101011 11001011101 11110001001 11110000101 01001010101 0100010101 11010100111 1011001011101 0011010101 1001011101 1001110101 11010101010 1101010101 110011101011 1101110011 11110101001 11110101100 1101010101010 01001110101 0101001100 0101011101 0101000101 1011011101 1111111111 01110101100 11010011101 1111111100 1001010101 1111000111 1101011100 1101010101 111101011001 1111111101 1111010011 11110011101 10010111001 0111001001 010111010101 00110111101 11001111101 0111010001 1111110111 1111110101 1011010111 1001010001 1111100111 1101010111 1101010111 1111010101 01010111100 11110101001 0101010001 1001011111 1111010100 110111100 0101011101 0101011001 11100000101 0101001101 01010101001 0100110011 1111110100 11001010001 010101010111 10101101010 11100100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 721
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, and, i, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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