This is an analysis of the poem A Whaler's Confession that begins with:
Three long years a-sailing, three long years a-whaling,
Kicking through the ice floes, caught in calm or gale,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCB deXe adad bddd acXcXaBCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010110010 10101110111 10101011010101 101010100101 11010111111010 1101010110101 10100110111011 11111011110101 11101111010010 00101000010001 11110101101110 11010101010101 01111101101010 0111110110101 11010110101101 11010101011101 11011101101110 1101010010111 11010100111011 111010101111101 110010101110 10101110111 10101011010101 101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i've, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'm is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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