This is an analysis of the poem Boats In A Fog that begins with:
Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXdeaebXdXdcbXadXffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000101010010 0010010010 111101101000010100 111001 1110 0101110010 010010100 11011101011010 111111 1001001110110110 10001110 1001001010100011 10110110 111101101111 100101000 01011001101101 10 101100100 10010010110010100 010100011 01001001010101110 0100100100 0101001110010100 10100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1030
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, by, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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