This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets Of The Empire: Hawk that begins with:
Great sea dog, fighter in the great old way!
What though thy ships were tinder, and the pest ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaacdacd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111000111 1111010101 1011011111 1111010101 1101011101 0111010101 1101010001 1101010011 1110011111 1101010111 0111110101 1001011101 11011000101 1111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thy, of are repeated.
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