This is an analysis of the poem Hawker, The Standard Bearer that begins with:
The grey gull sat on a floating whale,
On a floating whale sat he, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcbcccb dbddb XbeeX ebXeX cbccb fbXfb gbggb ebeeX hbhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011110101 1010111 11101001101 1011110111 11110101 10110110111 11100101 010111101 011010101 01001101001 11111011 10011010101 0110101 1011100101 1011011101 11011011 1011111010100 1010111 1010100101 101010101 11101110 1011111101 010111 010110110 0011110111 10101110 10101010111 10101011 100110110111 111111101 0101011 101101100101 0011101 110101110 1101011001 101111011 1000110101 01011000 0010110101 010110101 101010011 10100110101 1111011 1011101101 110101101 01001010 1010101101 01001101 10110100101 10101001001 101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, he, that, flag, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word he at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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