This is an analysis of the poem To The Harbormaster that begins with:
I wanted to be sure to reach you;
though my ship was on the way it got caught...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccXXdaXXXbcdXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110001011 1111101011 01101111101 11010001011 111000101001 011100111010 01010101100 11111011010 011101100 111011101010 0100100101 011101011 0011110111 11010001101 0010110010 001000001010 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 686
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, my, of are repeated.
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