This is an analysis of the poem The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket that begins with:

Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the air
and the beasts and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme:
  • Stanza lengths (in strings):
  • Closest metre:
  • Сlosest rhyme:
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  • Guessed form:
  • Metre:
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 151
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, of, at, in, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, if, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i, side are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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