This is an analysis of the poem The Last Buccaneer that begins with:
OH, England is a pleasant place for them that ’s rich and high;
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaX ddbb ddaa eeff aaccXddaaffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110001011011111 11000101111111 11011100111101 1010101010101 1010101101111 1101011110101 1010101111111 01110101010100 111010100010111 1111101000100101 1101010011111 1111100110001 1011101111111 101001101010001 1010101010101 0101010010001 110101010101 01000110010101 001010111110001 001010111110101 1101110011110 1011111111101 11111111110111 11100100110001 11110101010101 11111010011111 1111010010111 11110101010111 111111101111111 11000111110111 011100111110101 00101010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, and, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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