This is an analysis of the poem The Boat that begins with:
I must launch out my boat.
The languid hours pass by on the ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XX aX abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111 010101110 10111 0011101001101 110010010101011110 011011001010100101 01011011 110011101 11110110101 001001011 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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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