This is an analysis of the poem Merchantmen (1917) that begins with:
All honour be to merchantmen,
And ships of all degree,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbXded cXaa AfeXdfef AacaAccc cXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000100 110101 01110101 111101 01001001 111001 11010101 011111 01010101010001 01110101010100 01010100010001 11000100110111 11000100 111111 01110111 111110 01011111 1101001 100011101 110111 11000100 111111 110111001 010101 11000100 110111 11111111 111111 01010101010001 0100011010100 01010101010001 11000100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; from, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, all are repeated.
The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Merchantmen (1917);
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- idea of the verse;
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