This is an analysis of the poem The South Wind: A Fisherman's Blessing that begins with:
O blessed drums of Aldershot!
O blessed South-west train!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd abaXXb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1110100 11111 111101 11001 1110101 11101 1110111 11101 11111101 1100111 01110101 01 1 101 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; blessed, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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