This is an analysis of the poem Channel Crossing that begins with:
On storm-struck deck, wind sirens caterwaul;
With each tilt, shock and shudder, our blunt ship...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabc Xdefdf Xghchh hfiheX eahXah jkljklXgiggig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110100 0111110111 11000101110 1100100101 111110101 1011011101110 11111010101 11110101010 0111011001 100110100100 1101011010 1001100100 10011011001 0111110111 1101010101 010110101110 1010111100101 11001110011 01010101001 1101011011110 10101111101 010011100111 10100111011 10100111110 01010001101 11110100101 1011011101 11010011101 10110111101 111111100 1111100111 1100101101 1111011111 0110110101 01011101111 0101110111 11110110111 0101111101 11110101110 1110110111 110111111011 010101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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- summary of Channel Crossing;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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