This is an analysis of the poem The Mariner's Cave that begins with:
Once on a time there walked a mariner,
That had been shipwrecked;—on a lonely shore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdd efefff dgXghX hehXdd ififdX ajajkk deXell dfdXmm ifXfjj lklknX eaoaee pjpjnn hghgbX qlqldX ndndmm ndndrX papall bebenX qXqmff dedXee bgbgkX dfdfXj mnmnee obebpp dldlkX nrnree liliss Xbdbjj plpleX XefXkk llllee lXlhqX qmXmXo ebebhh eeeonn nXndll ndn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110100 11010010101 1011010101 1011011101 1111110101 11011110101 1110110101 1111010101 1101100111 01001011101 1101110101 0101010101 0111110111 1100010101 01110101110 11110000101 0101010001 1101001000 0111010101 0111110111 1111011111 1001010101 1111010101 1101011111 1101110001 01001010111 1111000101 1101010101 1101010111 1011011101 11110110100 1111001100 10111010100 01101000100 1101111001 1101110101 0101101101 1001111101 10110000100 01000100101 10011100111 0100010101 0101001011 1110010101 1111010101 1011001100 1001110101 1101011101 0111010101 1101010111 0101111110 1011010111 0111011111 0111011101 1001110101 0111001001 1101111101 1111001111 10100100111 1111111111 1111100111 11011111010 01110110100 11010110010 1101011111 1111010101 1011111011 1001110111 1100010101 0001010111 1100011101 0100011101 1101011101 01001110101 1001011100 1011010001 1101010101 11011101000 1101101101 10111010101 1111011101 00110010101 1111010111 1111111100 1001011101 0101111101 1101111111 1101110001 0111110111 11010100000 1101011111 1111010111 1111010101 1101001111 1010111111 01010101010 1101110101 1110001100 1111111111 1111111100 01011110110 1001001100 1111010001 1101111101 0101110101 1101010101 1011011101 0111010101 1101100101 01111100100 1100010101 1011110101 10010100111 1111111101 1111010110 1111110101 0111001101 1101011101 0101111101 1111010111 1101110111 1111010001 1101011001 1111011111 0111110111 1100011111 10110010001 1111110111 0101011101 1011111101 1111111100 11000010111 0100010101 1101111101 1101010101 1111011101 1101101101 0101110101 1100010100 1011010101 1101011101 1101011001 11011101001 01001011101 1111110101 1111011110 0111010111 1101001100 1111111001 1111011101 1011010101 0110110101 11110011101 01010101001 1011110001 0101111101 0101011101 1101011111 1100011001 1101100101 10110010101 1111010111 1101011100 0101100101 1101011101 01010011111 11011101001 0101000101 1101111111 1011010111 1101011011 1111000101 10010101001 11110101101 1101010111 0101111101 1001010101 00101011100 1101011101 0101110001 1111010111 1101110111 1111010101 0101110101 1001011101 01010100101 1111010111 0101010110 0111000101 11100100100 1111011101 1101110101 1101100101 1101100111 1101110101 1001110101 1100111100 1101001100 01010111001 1101111011 01110101001 1100011101 1011110101 01101100101 0101110111 1111110101 0101010101 0100010100 1011010111 1111111101 1101111111 1111110011 01011010001 1110010111 1111111100 1111110100 1111110101 1001011111 1111011111 1100111111 11111101111 1100111111 1111110101 1101001101 0101111101 1111111100 0111010111 1111110101 1111111111 1111110101 1100010111 1111110101 0101110111 1101010101 1011010101 10110010101 1101110101 1101011101 0101011001 1101110101 01110001001 1011010101 1101011101 1101010101 1110011101 1100110101 1111010111 1011011101 1101010100 10110111001 1001010111 0111010101 1001100101 0101110111 1101010111 1111110101 1101010101 1101111111 1111011111 1101110101 1101011111 1101110101 11111111000 1100010011 0101111111 0111010101 010100101 1111011001 01001101001 01110011101 0101110101 01010110110 11110110101 1110011101 11010010101 0011001111 11110111001 1111000101 0001000111 1011110101 1101111111 1011000101 1111011101 1101110101 01010010101 1001110101 0111010101 1111010100 01010100111 1101111111 1101011111 1111111101 1111111111 11001011110 0101010101 1101011011 11110011010 1101001111 1111011101 11011101001 1001010011 10001111111 1011001101 11100101111 1111110101 1101110101 1101011101 0111110111 10010110111 1111111111 1001001101 0111111111 1111010101 1101111111 01011010101 1101011111 1011111111 11110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 53
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 318
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, that, in, and, he, it, my, i, of, her, to, ', their, him, she, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, that, the, she are repeated.
The author used the same words then, and, the, 'what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase wait connects the lines.
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- summary of The Mariner's Cave;
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