This is an analysis of the poem His Boat that begins with:

This boat you see, friends, will tell you
that she was the fastest of craft,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebeXfeXeaXcegecXdcfXgae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111011 11101001 1001011 110100110 1011101101 0100101011010 10100010 1101110100 10110011 1010100111 10111010100 1101001001 0111101101 111001111100 11001001011 11111101 011011001001 101101110 10011010 1101101001101 1111010010 111001001010 1011100101 11110101 111110011 1101001100101 1010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1092
  • Average number of words per stanza: 203
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • 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; nor, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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