This is an analysis of the poem In Port that begins with:
Out of the fires of the sunset come we again to our own
We have girdled the world in our sailing under many an orient star;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbbb caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001000111101011 1110010110101011011 10110100100111 1111100111110101 0110101101110011 011010111100101 11101101001001110 100100111100101 11011100101011 10000110110101 1111111101011 1010111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, of, we are repeated.
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- summary of In Port;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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