This is an analysis of the poem The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence that begins with:

Moored to the same ring:
The hour, the darkness and I,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc decaf XXdf edff bXXgcXeeebgXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,4,4,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011 01001011 110010110 10100011100 001010111011 01111100 11101110 1010101 10111 1100101010 1111011010 10111101101 1101111110 01010111010 100110101 01010100101 111111001011 111010010 10101101011 0101000 101001011010 01100100110 00101101 0110101 0110101 11101010101 0100100 100 1001 100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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