This is an analysis of the poem The Yacht that begins with:
STRANGER, the bark you see before you says
That in old times and in her early days...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffggaa dddeeffaaaahhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001110111 1011100101 1101010111 0101001101 1001000111 11010101001 1100110101 1101010010 1010010101 1100010101 1101001101 1101110101 0101010111 0100011001 1101101101 1011100001 1100010001 11001000101 1000110111 1100111101 10001101100 0111010111 01010111001 1101110101 111100101001 1100111111 1101010001 1011100100 1101010101 10100111110 01010101010 10111100101 0111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 682
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from are repeated.
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- summary of The Yacht;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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