This is an analysis of the poem Wind-Jammer's Song (1845 Clipper Days) that begins with:
All hands on deck, below there!
The storm is coming soon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xcdc Xece baba Xfdf XgXg XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 010101 0111010 010101 0110010 110101 1001110 011001 0100110 111111 0111110 011101 1111010 110111 1101011 010111 0101110 110101 0111110 110101 0111010 110111 1111011 110101 1011110 011101 1110111 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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