This is an analysis of the poem Davy Jones's Locker that begins with:
Shipmates o' mine, are you sleeping fair an' sound,
Mates fair an' foul, friend an' foe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaBXccB dbdbXccBXAbaBbbbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111110111 1111111 1111110111 0101010101 0111101111 11101111101 11111011011 11010101 11111110111 1101011101 11011011111 0101010101 111110011100 1111111001 11111011101 11010101 11111110111 1101010011 111111001111101 0101010101 11110110101101 11111011111 1011010101101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; an', to, you, o' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, shipmates are repeated.
The author used the same word shipmates at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word below at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Davy Jones's Locker;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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