This is an analysis of the poem The Boat On The Serchio that begins with:
Our boat is asleep on Serchio's stream,
Its sails are folded like thoughts in a dream,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbc ddeXfgfghX eeiejaajkjjee ljljfcfhhgegmded nnooee kkembbddd fcfddjX bhhbb hchemoojXXb hhmm hhhhhoofXoaXekkbb iXanapapjpjhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,13,16,6,9,7,5,11,4,17,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110011101 0111011001 0111010110 1000101101 10110111101 1011100010 011100111 1011111001 0101101111 011011100 11100101 1010110101 101001101 10100010101 11010101 0101101100 110101110 0110110101 1010110101 1010110101 10101010101 111110101 1110100101 010010101 01001001111 1010110101 111101001 10011111 001100101 1101011101 1110011111 0101011101 1111011101 1101 11111101010 010110001011 1001011101 1111100111 0111110101 11000101001 1010011001 1011010100 01111101 01001100011 10000010101 1111110011 1101010100 0101111111 1111001100 1001001001 1111010101 1011100 1100111101 01110111 011110100 101110101 110010101 1010100111 111100111 11010001 011011010 01001010 011101010 111111001 01001011 110110010 111101010 1100010001 1001010101 1111111101 1101000101 1101110111 11010101 11010000110 11010101010 1111110011 1111101100 1111010101 0101010101 11110011110 11110101110 10111111110 1111 0010011 1001010101 100110101110 11011001110 01010111 01010101 1011111 1010101 01110111 01010101 11010001 11010111 01000 11000101 1011111 11101000 010001001 01010101 01010111 10010101 0010111 010101 01010100101 11000110110 0111011101 10010110010 11110100101 10110101010 1011011100 11110100101 1010111111 1101100111 1101000101 0101110101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 121
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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