This is an analysis of the poem How We Took The Great Galleon that begins with:
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea,
To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough the Spanish Main,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca cbcb cbcb adad caca abab dbdb aeae afaf ecec cbcbXfbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010110101 01010111010101 10101011111 10100111111101 1111010110101 10010101010111 0111010110101 10111110011101 1111010010111 11010111110101 1101010111101 1101110110111 11010100011101 1011011111110101 11001010110101 01110100010001 11001010111101 11010111110111 101110101111111 10111010110101 11001010010111 1101011111001001 111010111010111 110101001111101 1111110110001 111100111110101 1110101001101001 1101110010101 1111010010101 01010111010111 11101110111101 01010101110101 10010010010101 11110111010101 1111110111101 00101010111101 11010110100101 11010111110101 1101011110101 11001100010101 1111110110111 111111111010101 1111011111101 1101110110101 1100110111101 11111001111100101 0111110110111 1110010110101 1001010110101 01111101010101 1101110111111 1101110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, all, we, left, of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, we, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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