This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Boat that begins with:
Clouds rumbling in the sky; teeming rain.
I sit on the river bank, sad and alone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabca deXdd ecbbe ffcff bbggbXffcaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100001101 11101011101 0111010110 01001011001 11101001001 111011111 11010110101 1101111111 10101011101 10101011111 100101001 10111101111 0111111001 11100010111 11111110101 101101111 10011111101 1111011110 11001010111 10111010111 101111111 01111111001 1011111010 1110001100110 11111011101 111101011 10011100101 0101111011 10110110101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, to, you, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, on, take are repeated.
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- summary of The Golden Boat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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