This is an analysis of the poem A Seaman's Confession Of Faith that begins with:
As long as I go forth on ships that sail
The mighty seas, my faith, O Lord, won't fail; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbbccddeeeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111111 0101111111 1101110100 0111110101 1111110101 0111010111 0000111111 1111011111 1111010101 1111111111 0101111111 0101011101 0011110111 1111010111 1101111111 1111110101 0111010011 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 822
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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