This is an analysis of the poem My Boat that begins with:
I take no passenger in my boat
My boat is a damaged one. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdXefX ceabXc bcf cedegcXbhgiihXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,3,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100011 1100101 10110110010 00100101 0100010101001 11110110010 111100 1110110 110010001 110 00100110 110100101 1010001001 1011101 10100010 10011001 10010 0101100 101011110 101011 111101 000100110 100101111 1101010 10101 1001101 110110111 0111 11111 101111 11100101 0100010011001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, in, my, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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