This is an analysis of the poem Horn Weather that begins with:
When Admiral Drake came round the 'Orn,
A good long while afore we was born,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXbbCddc XeXXffeXCeXc bXccXcbbCggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011101 001110111 0111111110 1111111110 1101101010 1111110111 101101 101101 110111010 1011110111 110110011011 1111001110 111111110 1011011111 100100101110 11101011110 111111111 1110111011001 101101 111111 110111010 11101011101 11111110110 11111001110 11111011110 1100111110 11111111110 10100111010 11111111000 1110100100100 1010101 101101 110111010 11011111011 11111011111 001101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 520
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', it, there, port, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word weather at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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