This is an analysis of the poem Sailor's Harbor that begins with:
My thoughts, like sailors becalmed in Cape Town harbor,
Await your return, like a favorable wind, or like...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcc dXaaXeX cdXdacf baXecfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111100101110 01101101000111 1101010011001010 110110101101 110010100101 10101001010010 10110010 001010111010110 010111111101 101100011111111 11001111001011 1101111101 1011011111001010 1111111 10110011011 0100101111001 010110011101101 11111001111101 00111100110111 11110111101110101 111010 1011100111001 1110100101001 0111101110110010 1111011110100 101001011101010 11101100110 011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like, to, we, and, of, in are repeated.
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