This is an analysis of the poem When I Sailed In A Sea that begins with:
1902
When I sailed in a sea of tempests,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xaba cdcX dcec fghg iXifXehbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111001010 11111001 1101101011 1110111 11110101 11001101 10010101 110111010 11011111 0001111 1110101 01011101 11011101 00011101 1110111 11010101 111101010 001010111 111001010 11010001 111111010 0010100101 111001010 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my 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.
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