This is an analysis of the poem Hans Dans An' Me that begins with:
Hans Dans an' me was shipmates once, an' shared the wind an' weather,
An' many a job o' work in them old days we done together;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbbXccbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111101110 1100111001111010 11110101110101 1101111111111011 11111111110110 111101010011101 11011111110111 1101111111111011 11111111101111 11111111111110 01010111101101 11011111111111011 11111111111101 10011101011111 1101110011111 110101011111101 1101111111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', hans, me are repeated.
The author used the same word hans at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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