This is an analysis of the poem Tom May's Death that begins with:
As one put drunk into the Packet-boat,
Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdeeccaabbXfddgghhiijjggbbffbbkkaaXhiibXhhXXkkeeeebbXXjjeebaXckkccaXddaabbbbeejjXcbbhhllmmhhaann
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 100,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000101 1111011011 1101101001 1011010101 1101001111 1101010111 1101110101 1111111101 1111001101 1111110101 1011110011 1101100101 1110010101 0101001101 1001010110 0011010101 1101010101 101100101 1101110101 100101111 1111001001 1111101001 10010000101 00110101001 1010011011 1111100111 11011100101 110101011 1111110111 1100011101 1111011101 1011101101 1001010101 0101001001 1111100111 1101000111 1110111101 1111011101 101111110 1101110101 1001010101 01010101001 1101010101 1011011000 1001000101 0111110011 1101000101 1101000101 0101110011 1101000101 1101111101 1101001101 11110010101 1101010101 1011001100 0111011101 01111111010 01010111110 1111010111 0101010101 1101010111 110101110000 1011010101 111101010 10010111110 1101010101 11010100101 1101010101 1101011101 1100100101 1111110001 1101010101 1000001111 0101000100 1111010101 01111100101 1101011101 11010100101 1101001101 1101001101 1101110101 11110001101 1001010011 1111110111 0110111101 11001011111 0111101011 11101010101 1111110101 1101001101 01000101011 1001010101 110010101 11100100101 1111110101 1101000101 1101000101 1101001101 1111000101 1110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4206
- Average number of words per stanza: 747
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; he, but, and are repeated.
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