This is an analysis of the poem Mobile Bay that begins with:
There's a song has gone through my mind all day,
As a song will sometimes do;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccaC cdeXfcXc dXfccgXg XcecfcaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111111 1010011 011100001 10110111 0011100111 1010101 1111010101 1110101 10100100101 10111001 11101011 1011111 0101100101 1010101 111100010 00101101 1010110 10101 1110100101 1011101 1010011111 1011111 0100110111 00010111 0010010111 00101111 101011111 011101 1111111111 10111011 111110101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; and, it's, sail are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it's is repeated.
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