This is an analysis of the poem Our Boat Starts At Night that begins with:
Our boat starts at night
from the beach of Yen Kuang....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 001011 11110110 10111101011 010110101110 10011110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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