This is an analysis of the poem The Merman that begins with:
Who would be
A merman bold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccabc badaedeAAFaaf ggXgXaFXcFcXcAAFccaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,13,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 0111 1001 1001 1001 00101 101 1100111 1111101001 111011001010 1111110111 0011011001 1011001110 1100111101 1110101001 110011111 100100 1111100101 001111111 10110100 11010111 101111001101 1101100101 10111 1110100101 101101111 11100100 11110101011 101101101 11100100 111100101 101101100 110101001 1110101001 110011111 100100 11010101 100101101 110111001 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, of, would, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alone is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word merrily at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Merman;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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