This is an analysis of the poem Ham, Shem And Japhet that begins with:
Ham, Shem, and Japhet went a-sailing in the
Ark...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa abb ccXX ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110101000 1 01010100111111 1011111011101 111110110011 1111001101 1010101010101 11111010101010 10101010101110 11010110101 1010101111111 1101101101 10101011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; and, chose are repeated.
The author used the same word ham at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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