This is an analysis of the poem When Ham And Sham And Japhet: A Sailor's Song that begins with:
When Ham and Shem and Japhet
They walked the capstan round...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdXdefffXghg debeabcbiadaXahadeie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 110101 0101010 110101 0100110 010101 1101110 110101 11011000 011111 01101110 010011 01101110 0100101 01110010 110101 1101110 011101 01001010 110101 1101010 110101 1111010 1100010 1101110 010101 1101010 100101 1111010 110101 11101010 110101 1001110 011101 1101000 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 512
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; of, walking are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, he are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase walking connects the lines.
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