This is an analysis of the poem Dan (The Shantyman) that begins with:
Dan -
Beats the band as a shantyman....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bbXXccXa ddeeaa eeffXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10110100 101110111010001 11011101010101 110101010100010 1010110100100 100110111010 100101101010 111010101101100 01 01111010101 1011110111 11101111010011 11110111110101 1011010110101 1111110101 111010101 1110010101 1110110101 111010111 011101011010 101110101111 1111001111 11010111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, your, ten, men, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, maybe, and, ten are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dan at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Dan (The Shantyman);
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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