This is an analysis of the poem Deep Sea Plunderings that begins with:
If one could be mine for the asking
Of all the ships there be,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXded fbXfcXeX ghchXeie eidiigdg ijijeded Xkekakhk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011011010 010110 01111111 110101 1101110 110111 111000111 0011111 111111110 1111111 10101001011 1010110 110101110 1111101 011101111 0110101 11010011 101010101 101101111 11101001 11001110 0010111 101010101 00100101 11010010 00110101 110100111 10110111 11101010 1110111 0011100101 10101111 11001110 11101001 111110111 101001001 11111010 010111 110110101 0010101 11001010 1100101 111100101 10100111 11011010 11000111 111110111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, no, for, we'd, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, we'd are repeated.
The author used the same word we'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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