This is an analysis of the poem Commodore (North Atlantic Mail Service) that begins with:
Twice twenty thousand tons of steel obey his sole command:
He rules, a king whose lightest word is law from land to land:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXD aaXXdXD eeffXXdXXXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101010101 11011101010101 1110100101010101 001101010011010101 110101100100101010 1101001110111010 1111001011011111 0111100101010 01101 01010101111101 01011101110101 111011111010100 111100110110101001 101001010011011101 0101100101010 01101 110101111010101 01010101110101 1110110101011111 101010010110100101 101110010110101010 00101010110101010 101011101111101 0101100 0111100 0101100101010 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 525
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, his, and, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, a, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines brassbounder is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Commodore (North Atlantic Mail Service);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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