This is an analysis of the poem Here, Sailor that begins with:
WHAT ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the channel, a perfect... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111101100 110000101110010001 101 11011101010110 1001011011101101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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