This is an analysis of the poem After You, Pilot that begins with:

Dawn gilded over dunes of sand
That border Mobile Bay ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcada Xecebaea ffcfXege hfafcaba giji gfXf XkXkcbfb adadaaXaXhgifjdhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,4,4,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 110101 01110100 010101 11110111 1100101 11010101 1100101 10111111 010001 10010101 1101001 11011111 010101 11110100 010101 010010101 010101 01110101 011101 10010011 011101 11000100 010101 101111110 0101001 01010101 11001001 11011101 010101 01110101 010111 01010100 110101 110100101 010101 110001010 110111 110111001 110101 010101001 110101 11011101 111101 01010111 010111 11011101 111111 1001100101 110101 10110101 010101 01010101 011101 110011101 111101 00110101 1001110 110011101 0101001 11010101 1101001 01010101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

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