This is an analysis of the poem Song. What Boat Is This That Bears that begins with:
What boat is this that bears
My soul on an ocean, fanned... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaa XcdcXX bdbdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 1111101 110101 0110101 00110111 01001001 1001010 110101 111101 010101 11000100 01011111 101101 110111 100101 101101 11111101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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