This is an analysis of the poem The Disciples At Sea that begins with:
Constrained by their Lord to embark,
And venture, without him, to sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc dedeeeee fgfgefef hihidddd ajajcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111001 11001101 010110011 11001010 11101101 11011001 11011101 11001001 11101101 01001001 11101001 11111011 11001111 01011001 01011101 11111101 11001011 11101001 11001001 11011001 11011101 11001111 01001101 01101001 00111001 11001011 01111001 11001111 11011101 11001011 11111011 11001111 11111001 01111001 11111111 11111001 01101101 01101111 11001001 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; they, to, we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
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