This is an analysis of the poem The Doldrums (A Still-Life Picture) that begins with:
The sails hang dead, or they lift and flap like a cornfield scarecrow's coat,
And the seabirds swim abreast of us like ducks that play, a-float,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeffggaabbccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01111111110111001 101010101111101 101011101111101 100101011111001 1111011001110111 101010011110001 10111101110111 11011111100101 110010101010101 101110100110111 101000101110111 1010101001110111 101110101010101 101111101110001 011111001010101 111101001110101 111010100010101 111111101001111 111011101010101 001111100010101 101000101010011 111010101111101 1110010111011111 111011101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1554
- Average number of words per stanza: 298
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, rolling are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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