This is an analysis of the poem The Jumblies that begins with:
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBbbBaXccXDEDE afggfddhhXDEDE aiffijjhhXDEDE bihhijjggXDEDE akffkkkbkDEDE XjiiXffeeXDEDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,13,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100110 0011101 01011111 1010110101 0011101 11011111 11001111010 11011111 111101011101 0011101 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 110100110 0011111 0100100111 1001011001 00101111 1100111101 111010111 10101101001 1101100101 0010111 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 010011000 0100110 101011111 0010101101 111001001 11101001001 110011111 10101101001 11101110111 1101111 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 11111101 110111 1101100101 001001001001 00100101 110011011 111001101001 111100111 110100111 00100101 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 110010110 00111001 1111110101 10101101101 10101001 1110111111 10101001011 110100111 1110101 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 101001111 010011 1100111111 11000110101 101001010 1111111001 010101001 11001101101 110101001 001001010 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 535
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; they, in, sieve, and, it, we, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sieve at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Jumblies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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