This is an analysis of the poem A Channel Passage that begins with:
The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick
My cold gorge rose; the long sea rolled; I knew... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebfbef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 011111001011 1111011111 1111010101 1111010111 11011111010 10110011111 11011111010 0111010111 11011101111 1101110111 110101001110 0111000101 11011111111 011111001110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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