This is an analysis of the poem Waiting On The Mayflower that begins with:
i. august 1619
arrived in a boat, named...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aa bX Xc ad de bf XX bg df hi ja X ak aa cc Xa aa jl kf Xj fm bn fm mo hk hn kk X Xf al ag af lb mm cm ea aa ap dp ff ea ba kn dk ie ho Xb gp ba fa an Xg hkXfi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 010011 10110100 0100101 1010110 100101 1001011 01110 11110 101110 10111001 1001010 1001101 1111100 11010110 10111 0010010101 0001010010 1100101 10110100 110101001 011110 0001010 10101 11110 0010101 0101011 10011011 10010110 0111101 011010 1111010 101011 1011001010 1111010 1000001 1001010 1111 10001 1001001 1010101 0100010 101011 111101 11110 010010110 1011010 010111 100100010 111001 11010100 101011 1101101 110011001 111 111010 11101 0101011 011101 01010010 01010111 1010110 101101 10100001 001111 0010110 0010001010 01001101 10011010 1101101 1001110 0101011 1010111 0111101 011101010 10010110 11010100 10111 111 111111 010001 011011 1111001 1100010 1011101 0101010 1000101 110001 0101001 0100110 111101 0111101 1110010 010110 101110 10101010 1101001001 1101110 10101001 1111010 0101011 00010001 1110010 10110100 1101011 01110101 10011001
- Amount of stanzas: 55
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 53
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines power is repeated).
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