This is an analysis of the poem Oars Of That Boat Left Untouched that begins with:
Would I take my mind,
Now relaxing comfortably with peace....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bX XXac XdcdeaaeccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1010100001 10100010 111010001 1111100 1101101100 011010101 11110100 01110111 110101001000 01011110101 1001110 11101010011 100101111010 101000101010 1110 110111010101 011 001011 101 101010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, of are repeated.
The author used the same word would at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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