This is an analysis of the poem The Voyage that begins with:
What is my mast ? A pen.
What are my sails ? Ten crescent moons. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaXbbbccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 11111101 101101001 111101001 1111010110 1011010111 1111001001 1011010111 01010101 11011110101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spring is repeated).
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- summary of The Voyage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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