This is an analysis of the poem The Admiral's Ghost that begins with:
I tell you a tale to-night
Which a seaman told to me, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbXb deae fghg ciji kele fcbc mmam aaja akmk ceke dblb cmXm cnnX Xkak cici mbbX mXck mebe lajX fege bnXn XbcX cele hgag kaha hbib fijX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110101 1010101 011100101 10111101 1111101 1001001 1011111001 1011111 100111 11011001 1111101111 0011101 0111011 111111 11100101011 1110110 1111101 11101001 00110110111 10110111 1000111 1111111 11001101011 110111 1100111 0110101 11111011111 01110101 11111111 10101001 110010111 01101001 1101011 111001011 111001111001 11100111 101101 111100111 111111101 11111101 1110101 1100101 10101111101 110011 11010110 0111101 111100101 01101 1101010 110101 111111011011 111101 1111111 1010101 110111111 010110111 1111110 11110101 1111011101 111101 11111111 1011111 10101111111 111111 110111 1101111 1100101001 1101010 1111111 10101001 01101011001 1110111 1111001 0011111 011100111 110101 11011001 1100111 110111001 1100111 1101001 00110111 1110110111 0111100 110011 1010101 1101101101 1101101 11011111 1111101 10001100001 111001 111101 11110111 111011101011 1100111 111101 001011101 1010011101 11111111 11001001 11100101 0100111111 1011101 1110111 11100111 01011011101 1111001 101101 11100101 10111111111 011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, he, you, i'll, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words 'he, 'the, ', 'they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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