This is an analysis of the poem As Slow Our Ship that begins with:

As slow our ship her foamy track
Against the wind was cleaving, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcD ebebfdfD gXgbdddd cbcbhdhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 0101110 010010111 0111110 11110111 0101111 11111111 0111011 11010100 1101010 01111101 1111110 110011101 1101111 11011101 0111011 11010111 1111100 111100111 1111010 11111011 01011011 01110110 0111011 110011111 1101010 01011111 1101010 110101001 0111011 11011101 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, us, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word us at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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