This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Xvi Contentment that begins with:
It’s peace the sailor asks of the gods, when he’s
caught out on the open Aegean, when dark clouds...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab cXad eada cfbd adac faaa geag XXXX cgcc adXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100111 111010010111 11001101010 10100 01111100010 1101001010 11001010010 11011 1101100010 101010001010 11001111001 110010 1111101110 10010110111 1100110100 11101 11110110111 10101110111 10101011111 00111 01011010111 11010101010 10111011001 11101 10100100111 01000011100 01010101100 10101 10101101111 100110110011 010101001001 10011 01010010010 10111110100 111101101 10010 11011010101 0111010011 01011011111 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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