This is an analysis of the poem The Missionary that begins with:
LOUGH, vessel, plough the British main,
Seek the free ocean's wider plain; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeefgfg eehhiijjddklhl ggbiddggaammeehhkaa llaahhaahknononX fhfkddlalabliligigpbpbngngqhqhbabXlblbciciddaXgggllnnjjmmllqqhXrroXrraaee llssbbiilloXXgagagllXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,14,19,16,73,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 10110101 11011101 10100101 11010111 110111001 11010101 11110101 11111111 10110111 10011101 110111010 11010111 110111010 11110001 11011101 11010101 110101001 11010101 11011101 11010001 10010101 10010101 11010101 10010111 10101100 10110101 11110100 11011101 11011111 00010101 100111101 010011101 111100101 11011100 11111111 11111101 11110001 11010111 101101110 111111010 01100101 11011101 11011111 01110101 01111100 10111111 11101101 11001111 11111111 11111111 100011101 10111101 111001111 11010101 01000101 111111001 11110100 1101001001 11011101 10010101 111100111 111100101 1101010010 10110101 110100001 11011101 01011100 11110101 01010101 11010101 01010101 11011101 11000111 10011101 01111101 01010001 01010101 1110101 01011101 00110100 010010011 010111001 1111001001 01010101 01011100 100011011 11111101 11010101 01111100 10011101 101111001 110000101 0101111 10010101 11100101 11110111 11010100 11110101 10111101 11010101 11111101 11110101 01110001 11010101 11010111 11110001 01111101 01010101 11011110 10010101 11010101 10111101 10110101 10110011 11010101 0111101 11110101 1001001001 10010101 11010101 11011101 011101101 11111101 11011101 11111101 1101100 10010101 11010101 11011011 00111101 1111001011 111101001 11010101 11010100 01010101 11110111 111101001 11010111 11010101 11100101 11010101 10101101 11001111 11011011 01011111 10111111 01011001 10110110 01110101 111101001 10110101 101011111 11010101 11100101 11110001 11010101 01010000 1100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 967
- Average number of words per stanza: 171
- Amount of lines: 159
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; english, i, of, and, what, thy, not, his, for, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, what, of, his, then are repeated.
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- summary of The Missionary;
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