This is an analysis of the poem A More Ancient Mariner that begins with:
The swarthy bee is a buccaneer,
A burly velveted rover, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebfb gXXb hfaf iXiX ebhb gjej kbhb edfd keae hgcg eege hdfd Xlhl jbdb mXmj Xaaa enen
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 01010010 110101001 11101010 010010101 01010011 111010101 00101011 010101101 11001010 10111001001 11101010 110010101 1101110 11010101 10100010 11001101101 11001110 110010101 1001010 110101101 1001000 111010101 101010010 110100101 11001010 110011101 001001010 111111111 101011010 10101100101 0111010 11010101 01001010 111101101 11101010 1101001001 01001010 1010100101 1101011 0101110001 1101001 110110101 0010011 110111101 11110010 111111111 11111010 110110101 11011010 1110100111 10101110 110110101 1110101 101101011 1010101 110100100 1011101 11001101101 00101001 100111001 1011010 010010101 10101010 1111101001 10111000 1110101101 10101110 110100111 10100101 0101111101 10100101 11101001101 11101010 111100101 00100110
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; his, he, and, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A More Ancient Mariner;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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