This is an analysis of the poem Merchant Men (1904) that begins with:
Ere the word of Kings went over on the pathway of the rover,
To the lands of hope and promise at the breaking of the day...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbddd adcd eecedDd adXd Xdadddd fdad fbgbdDdXgdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,7,4,7,4,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111010110010 001011101010001 1011001010011010 101010100010001 1010101 1101101 101010101010101 1110101000101110 111110101010101 1111101010101110 111010110010101 0111111110101011 101010101010001 1011111011100110 00101001010110101 1010101 1010101 111010101010101 1110111010111010 101010101111101 1011001111101110 111011000010101 1110101010111010 101111100010101 10101001011101110 111011100010101 1010101 1010101 101010101010101 1110111000101010 1010100101010011 1011110011101110 111010100010101 1111101011111110 00101010010101 11101110010101010 101110101011101 1010101 1010101 101111100010101 1111101010101010 101011110010111 11100101011101110 1110101000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, men, they, and, in, merchant, lives, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words came, o, and, leave are repeated.
The author used the same word yea at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines men is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word men at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Merchant Men (1904);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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