This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxi: Far O'Er The Waves that begins with:
Far o'er the waves my lofty Bark shall glide,
Love's frequent sighs the flutt'ring sails shall swell,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001110111 1101010111 1011011111 11010100111 1011100101 1001010111 11010010101 11010010101 1101000101 1011011001 1001010101 1101110101 1101011101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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