This is an analysis of the poem The Ship Starting that begins with:
LO! THE unbounded sea!
On its breast a Ship starting, spreading all her sails--an ample... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 101011010101110 110010010 0100100111111110 011001110 10101010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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