This is an analysis of the poem Captain William Bligh that begins with:

Look for an iron soul to bear the piled
anathema of time, to take, without...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXabba cdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010101 0100010101 10010100101 01011101100 01001010111 0101111101 0101011101 01001110101 01001011101 1111011101 1101111101 0101001001 0111010111 11010001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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