This is an analysis of the poem Compensation that begins with:
One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea;
He built a bridge, but floods have borne it down;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbabacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111111 1101111101 1110111100 0111011101 1011110101 11111101101 0100111001 1101101100 110000100101 1101010101 1101010101 11011011001 110010010111 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 647
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; good is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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