This is an analysis of the poem The Nancy's Pride that begins with:
ON the long slow heave of a lazy sea,
To the flap of an idle sail,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe gbhb dchc ccXc digi daaa bafa dcfc hXaj CbCb CjCj jcdc fbgb fkXk acXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1011100101 00101101 010111101 10101101 111110101 0010101 00101010 011001 110110101 1010101 110010101 1100101 110000101 100101 010010101 00100101 101110111 1110101 101010110 0110101 101010101 0010101 10100111001 110111 111010101 1010101 1011100101 110101 1100110101 1010100 111010100 110101 010110111 0101001 11110110101 10100101 01010101 00100110 001011101 1010001 111110101 00100101 1010010101 1100101 111110101 00101101 1010010101 111101 101010101 010001 10011001 1011011 1011100111 1110101 10110101 0100111 011110101 0010011 10110111 1100101 100011101 1010101 1010111101 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when are repeated.
The author used the same words she, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Nancy's Pride;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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