This is an analysis of the poem The Empty Boats that begins with:
Why do I see these empty boats, sailing on airy seas?
One haunted me the whole night long, swaying with every breeze, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111101101101 110101111001001 01011101110111 10011101111101 11010101011111 110100100010101 010011010101101 11011101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
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