This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Oar that begins with:
Once upon Iceland's solitary strand
A poet wandered with his book and pen,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacaXcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110010101 0101000111 1011011101 10001010001 0101110101 01001110101 1001011111 1011110111 1101010111 0101110111 1111011111 1101110111 1101110101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 592
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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