This is an analysis of the poem Sail On, Sail On that begins with:
Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark --
Where'er blows the welcome wind, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccX dedefgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 10010101 01010111 11111101 11110101 101011110 11111111 110111110 11111101 11110111 010010101 01111111 10110111 11011101 100011101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; through, on are repeated.
The author used the same word sail at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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