This is an analysis of the poem Miracles that begins with:
I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence steaming
Down a canal; it drew the dizzy landscape after; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc deXded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101010 1001010101110 0101110100010 11010001111010 101100111101 01011101111 1111101101001 110001010111 1100101010101 1101010010101 110100110111 1111110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
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