This is an analysis of the poem The Ferry Boat that begins with:
Behold! Pilgrims come at night
To board the ferry boat, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabc deaa adffe ghXdgb dXeieachjafddXd echXfdXcXhjXifXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,6,15,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 010101 10111101 100010010101 1011101000010 100101111 01001011010 01010010111 011001010001 010010111001 100101110100 01010001011 11001001 101100101 01111001 010101 11001100 101 0010001001001 1010010101 11001110 001010 10111010 001001 11110 1010100101 10100110010 10100101010 10110101010 101001 10100111 01010010 11101 1101110 0010011 101001001 010010 010111 010010010 11010101 1101101 011100100 111001101010 0111000 1110101 001010 11010 0101001 1110101 010010101000100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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