This is an analysis of the poem Lee Fore Brace that begins with:
There was ten men hauling on the lee fore brace
In the rain an' the drivin' hail,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb caXa deeX Afff bcec Addd deXe bdgd fege Xcec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111010111 00110101 101110101 10100111 11011111 110111 11011101 111101 111110101 10101001 111110101 001010 11111010111 1011101 101010101 111101 01110111 111111 11111101 010101 11111010111 1011111 011100111 10110111 11001101 111101 1011011111 111101 111111111 1111101 11111101 1111101 101110101 1011101 101110101 110101 111111111 1100111 011111101 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', she, his, my 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 an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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