This is an analysis of the poem Lines To A Steamboat that begins with:
Dark stranger on the teeming map of fate
Fabric, that seem’st a thing alike apart...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb cdcdaa efefgg hhhhff ffffii jfjfkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1011010101 0111011101 0101001101 1111011111 1111010101 1111010101 1111010111 1111010111 11011100111 11001111101 0111110111 1111110101 1111010101 11011100111 10111101001 110011101 0101010101 1101011111 1101111111 11111100101 1111011111 1101110110 1111010001 1111110111 101011101011 1111011011 11011001011 1011011111 1101011101 1111011101 0101010001 1001011101 1111111101 1101011111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; that, and, thou, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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