This is an analysis of the poem The Soul’s Mutiny that begins with:
I saw a galley passing to the West,
Its silken sails aglow as if with blood,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dbdbbbbb efeffdfd bgbggdgd hahaadad Xibicece ijijjfjX gbgbbkbk jdjdXhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 0101011001 1011110001 1101010101 1101010101 0101010100 10011010101 1101010100 11111100101 10010001001 011010111 0101010101 10011101001 1110010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101100101 1001010001 1101110101 1101100101 1001110101 0101010111 1111000101 1100011101 1111010111 1001010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101110001 1101110101 1101010101 0101111101 1101110101 1011100101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010111 0101010101 1011110101 1101010101 1111011110 0111110100 1111010001 1111000111 1101001100 1111011111 0101111100 1011110001 01001100001 10111100101 1111010101 0101011101 0101100101 0111011101 01110000101 0111011100 1100010111 11001010101 1101010101 01001111111 01010101011 0101001101 1101010101 1101010011 0111101101 1001110100 0101110011 1101111100 0111010111 1101110101 1101110101 11110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Soul’s Mutiny;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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