This is an analysis of the poem Sail Away that begins with:
Early in the day it was whispered that we should sail in a boat,
only thou and I, and never a soul in the world would know of this our ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX Xbb aXXX Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101101111001 101111100100111001 10001101011 0110010 11100100111110100 1111011001 001111 111101 10101110101 100101010110011 11101001 10110110011 100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
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