This is an analysis of the poem Watching The Needleboats At San Sabba that begins with:
I heard their young hearts crying
Loveward above the glancing oar... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 100010101 110101010 10101111 1111010 1011001001 110011110 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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