This is an analysis of the poem In Great Waters that begins with:
Ho, ye valiant mariners, ho, my merry men,
Sought ye gems of Ophir, or gold of Darien?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaXX aaXX bbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010011101 111010110100 1100101010111 101011110101 1101010110111 1100110110111 1101010110101 11111110101 11110111110101 101010111010111 1111010111111 1101111110011 10110011110101 01110101110111 1101010111110000 11110011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; of, ye, we, no, our, us, for are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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