This is an analysis of the poem The Yachts that begins with:
contend in a sea which the land partly encloses
shielding them from the too-heavy blows...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa aXX aba ccX dce fgX cXf dXf age gaX Xcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110110100 100001101 0110001011010 1001010111 01010101101000 10011000001 10010101101 1100110110 01111100011 1110000100010 1011111110110 101011111101 00110010010100101 1011011100100 1100100101101 101001011001 01100101011 100000010101110 0101011011010 1110111010 011110110101 11001010100111 111011101111 11111111010 10110101101 1011000011101 00010100100100001 01010001110001 0110110100010010 1001101110110 101001000100101 11110101110 01110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; they, in are repeated.
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- summary of The Yachts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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