Song Of The Sailor Boy by Eliza Cook: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Sailor Boy that begins with:

Cheer up, cheer up, my mother dear!
Ah! Why do you sit and weep?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeE fgfgahXheE bibihXhXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 1111111 111111111 1001101 11111111 1111111 111011101 1111111 1110111101 1100101101 11011101 1101001 101010111 1101001 0111100111 0100101 11011101111 101101101 0110101111 1100101101 10010111 11111001 01011101 1011111 11111011 0100101 11010101 110110 111100101 110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word blue at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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