This is an analysis of the poem To. W. P. that begins with:

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Calm was the sea to which your course you kept, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbbccbdedaea X affaaffagcgcaa X bhhbbhhbijjiji X kffkkffkjljljl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,14,1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101011111 1111011101 1011011011 1001010111 1101010111 1101010011 1011011101 1011010101 1101010101 0100011111 1111011101 1111011111 101101001 1101010001 1 0101011101 1001010011 0111010101 1101010101 10110110111 1100110001 0100111111 1111110001 1111001100 1101001101 1011001100 1111110101 1111111100 1110111101 1 1111000101 0101010101 110101101 1101010001 1111110101 1110110111 1101110101 0100111101 1101111101 1101111101 1001010111 1111110001 1101110101 1101000111 1 0111111111 0111011101 1101011111 1001110101 0111010101 11111101011 1100010111 100011000101 1101010101 0101011101 1100110101 1111111011 110100011 0111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, i, and, your, you are repeated.

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