This is an analysis of the poem 7 Days On The Sea that begins with:

Monday
The world is a ball of water....

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdefeXceebghggggicejekjhdg a glkmdcdbfmenoXkkmaemcbggggpi a hcield oedXXehXXkgkd q dccgglkgdgggogggiagdeflXmmmm a hmgidbgmioffkgrkrXkfekmf gacciiidkfenhkg a drbkohdhhkXodgnagrdmmcididfodXpd qXdjbkddgrcemgbekcdkckoohokcci
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,1,28,1,6,13,1,28,1,24,15,1,32,30,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 01001010 100110 1101010 0101100 01001101010 11 111011 100 100110 1010010 10010010 110010 101 00110 110111 10011 010101 111111 1101 011101 011 01001101 101001 0101001 1101 11110 0101 011001 11 01010101 0101010101 11000101 01010101010001 10011101 0101010111 11011111 1101010 10010101000101 10101011 1101010001 1101000111 011010111 011100111001 100101111011 101110111011 01110111 1101010 11011101001 11010111001 10100011 010100101010 1001111101 01011101 101111001 1010101011101 1001011111 1011111101001 11 011101010 1101001 11111010111 01010100101110 111100100101 1100010101 01110101 111110101 0010011 101010010 1010111 10101110 110100010 111111010 11101100010 1110100101 101101011101 1110011111 0101001 11 011010101001 100011101 10010100101 01001010100101 10011101001 11010100111 1001101110001 11111101001 1111110101 0110011101101 111111 111001001111 01111010101 0110010110101 11101000101 01011110011 10101011101 1010001011000100 1001010111 101001010111 010110100101 11110010101 10001110101 11001010100 011100111101 01111111001 0100101010101 0100100101 11 1110 111 10101 1111 1101001 010010 11101 0111 10111 110101 01011 101010101 11001 110110101 011001 11001010 100111 101111 10101 1011 11011 10111 0111 1111 111111111010001 1111101110 110101001001011010 111011111110010010 1101111100010 11011001001101 0110010101 1110011001 1101100101 1010111111 1110101001 110100111 110010110010 110100101001 100101001001001 100 110111 10101 0101010 110111 1101 101010 0110001 01110010 101010 010101 0101010 10011 111111 1010001 101101 110100 110101 0110101 110101 0111001 0110101 1111001 11111 110101 1111011 10001 01001001 110001 10101001 110101 0010111 010010001 11 1110111 01010010101 1111000010 011101010101 111001001 01001 11110101 1001 111101 1111 110000101 0101 1001110 111 11001010111 01010 01111 01010101001 00111 1001111101 110110101 100111001 01001010 0101 111111 0101 1111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 462
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 210
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; with, away, fill, of, its, i, on, for, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, fill, all, or, on, eye, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines down, away are repeated).

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