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A Dramatic Poem
The deck of an ancient ship. At the right of the stage is the mast,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdefegfh fi i jk lmhn opc Xmi apaX bjbff d bnm b bgqnpmg rjm pbjlo fhpfm o ac g d hfc bd mkckmcsa gkcg bc mb kmk XkX X gkbk b shdmjhm rXjgo a o k b dkf k jbatkangk kft mgln csfg ffjfg rb db pr bp or cbmkg i ppnfgohsgbodppXhgcbh m fffsbdgg gm mjmmkhb gc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,2,1,2,4,3,3,4,5,1,3,1,7,3,5,5,1,2,1,1,3,2,8,4,2,2,3,3,1,4,1,7,5,1,1,1,1,3,1,9,3,4,4,5,2,2,2,2,2,5,1,20,1,8,2,7,2,3,3,5,4,1,5,3,6,13,2,10,6,14,1,2,2,1,3,2,3,3,3,4,3,2,1,2,1,1,1,2,33,1,2,1,6,3,1,1,4,6,9,2,2,2,10,3,1,3,4,2,9,7,2,2,4,5,1,5,3,2,2,1,1,2,2,3
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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1101110001100 1010010010010101 111011 111101 101111 01011111000 1101001110101 111011010010 10110111 1101101 1111001101 1111110101 1010111111101 01 1110110001 1101001011111 11010101011 10111100010 1011010101 1010111101001010 1101011001 010101 101101 11010011101 01011 101110011100 1011100101001 0111110111111 01011101 01011111011 111111011111 1 1011011010111 1110110 1001110110 1101001101 011111111 1 1101110101 1110101010 11010100001 1101111101 1111110011 10111111101 0101010111 11010111111 1111010111 11101111011 1111110011 00101110001 1101000101 11010110101 11101010001 001001111110 0101011001 1111110111 100110010011 110101101010 0100110100 11011010101 01001100101 11010111111 101 110101010 111101101 01101 101100011011 11011111010 010101100000 1010110011110 011011 1110111111 1100010001 11101111001 111101 1001101 1111010011 111110111011 101001011100 1111 101111011 1111011100 1 11111111011 1001101110111 11010011010 11110011010 11110110101 1101010011 1111011 10111 1111010111 1111010101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 240
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 806
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, sailor, and, i, you, all, that, have, we, they, but, or, voice, now, no, laughter, kiss, to, o, sword, it, for, would, weep, treasure, he, high, too are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a, that, one, another, for, in, if, o are repeated.

    The author used the same words first, another, aibric at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines enough, world, hear, kiss, side, first, it, story, to are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words enough, dead, kiss, first, him at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase first connects the lines.

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