This is an analysis of the poem The Arctic Voyager that begins with:
Shall I desist, twice baffled? Once by land,
And once by sea, I fought and strove with storms,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccdacaaefgehcadaiajfacaXaXjgfbgXXeiahdfeib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 1111111101 1101011101 1101110101 1111010111 11001010101 1101111101 1111011101 1001010111 01010000111 1101110001 1011010101 0101011111 11101111111 1100010101 1011010011 1101010111 1101011111 0101000101 1101111101 0101110001 1101010001 0101011101 0101010111 1011110101 1101110111 1111010101 1111010001 1101010101 1111010101 0111110111 0101110100 0101010101 1011011111 1111010101 1101110101 1011110111 1111111111 0101010001 0011110001 0101010001 1111010111 0101111111 1111110111 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2023
- Average number of words per stanza: 371
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, is are repeated.
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