This is an analysis of the poem Salute To Sailor Town that begins with:
The little streets of Sailor Town
They are not fair nor fine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXabcAac AcXcXdaad AcbcXbaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 111111 11001101 110111 11011101 010101 01010101 01010101 111111 01010101 011111 11110111 010101 11111001 011111 01010101 01010101 110101 01010101 111111 11110101 110101 110111101 010111 01010101 01010101 01010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, in, sailor, town are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, the, in are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines town is repeated).
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