This is an analysis of the poem Stars In The Sea that begins with:
I took a boat on a starry night
and went for a row on the water, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcb dede XefX gbgXXfbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 111011010 11110110101 11101010 1111110101 101101010 011101011 111011010 110111111 11011110 1110100101 11101010 1110001111000 111101010 1111100111 110111100 10001101111 11101110 11101111111 110011100 1000011100001 11001110 1101011001 1010001110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; on, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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