This is an analysis of the poem After The Sea-Ship that begins with:
AFTER the Sea-Ship--after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcaabXcXXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011100101 100111101111 010100100110010111 1001010101001 1001010011001010 110101100101001 01110101011001 101101011001010 1011010010010100 10 01001110110101100 10011 010010010010111010 1000101101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 863
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; after, waves, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words after, waves are repeated.
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