This is an analysis of the poem The Revenge - A Ballad Of The Fleet that begins with:
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AT Flores, in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a aaabcda X becbe X aebfefbeb X ggfafagehg a fffee a XgXiiX X bhXaaah X ggbXibX aajjjcc k eddbbe a allaeaemmbXbbgeecceeeX aiifff X egkbffab X fnffnfeneffieXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,5,1,9,1,10,1,5,1,6,1,7,1,7,7,1,6,1,22,6,1,8,1,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110001110101 1010101011100101 10101111110101 11110101111110 11101011111101 10111111111101 11110011110101 1 11110101111110 1101010010001 11101111110101 1111101001101110 01101011010001 1 11101010110111 111010100101010 11101011011001 1010011 10100010 11101010101 1110101 11110111101101 00111011010001 1 1110010100101101 111010111010101 00111010010101 1111111 0110111 1010101 100100111010101 11101011010110 111110010100010 11101110111101 1 110111111100111 010011110001001 001010111010101 110110011100101 101001111011101 1 1001101101111 10011011101101 10111110 111011101001101 1110010110010101 101011111 1 111011101011101 1010101 1111 1100101 0010111 110101011010101 1010101001 1 110011101100111 10101011110110 101110111111101 10101110111100 1010111111011101 1110010001 1 10111101111100101 11001010100110101 110101111111001 1101011100101011 1101011111001101 11011100101111111 10101100101000101 1 1111111 101011101 1010111001101110010100111101 101011111001001 101111001001101 1111111 1 10111101111100101 1010101011111001 1111110111111111 11110110 11111001 10100101 10100111001 1100101111 001001000101001 101110010100111 1010110111010110011 10110100101001 1110100101 111101101101 11100101 11111011 101111 11101 1110101 11011010101001 10001011000101 1 10101111010101 1110111 1011111 101010100110111 11101011010101 101011101110001 1 10101010111111 11111011110111 11110010110101 1110111111 11111111010111 111011101010101 0010101110101 1110111111 1 11110111011011 11100101100111 11100110110101 11101111101111 11101001010001 11100100101001 1011100111101 1010011110101 10100101101001 1110110100111 10110110111111 101111111111111 1011111101101001 101001011110101 001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 143
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, be, and, of, they, ship, night, her, long, whole, after, to, we, he, d, with, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thousands, and, ship, we, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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