This is an analysis of the poem A Passer-By that begins with:
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,
Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXabX XcXccbcX dedeeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111110 100101000101 11011101110 10011101111 11110111110 111111011010 11110101011 0010100111110 11011001011110 01001101001001 111101000111 1101001101 111101111 10100101001110 110100100111 1110111011110 111101100110 11101001011001 1110101001010 110100100111 11111101100101 11100110110 0011010011 0010100111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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.
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