This is an analysis of the poem Colin that begins with:
Who'll dive for the dead men now,
Since Colin is gone?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBccccdbbded fBggfhBiijjkkkbbhhkk ccilileebeeXb mBmmbababgngn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,20,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 11001 1110101 11001 1100101 0011101 1100111 00111101 1101101 1100101 0101111 00100101 0010100101 1100111 11001010 11001 1100101011 100110101 0110111 110101110 11001 110111101 111011111 110010100 0010111001 11001001 1100101 0100101 11101 00101 10100010 1101110 1010001 10100111 111101 1010111 1110101 111111 111101 110111 111111 101111 11101111 1101101 10100101 110110111 010101 1100101 11001 111111 1101101 11001 1110111 1110101 1110111 1110111 11100111 11111101 1100110111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word who'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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