This is an analysis of the poem Where Lies The Land To Which Yon Ship Must Go? that begins with:
WHERE lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?
Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011111 1101101101 10001110101 0111011101 11001010111 1111010111 1101010101 1001010101 1111110001 1111011101 0101110111 1001011101 0011110101 0011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
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