This is an analysis of the poem Royal Yacht that begins with:
Samuel Pepys, as all men know,
Loved ladies and ships in the long ago;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dXed ccffeegghhhhbbhhXiffbbjjkk iiffeeeeiXXXXXll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,26,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 1101100101 010101101 011110101 110111101 010111111 11101101 10110 1 101 101010101 1110011101 10010101 10110111 10011101 0010110101 1011011001 101011101011 010101110 00101011110 0111011110 01011101010 00111111011 10110001011 10101010010 10111001010 11110010010 011111110 110110111 110100101 10101001110 0010111110 10101010110 1110111010 10100011111 110100101 10101101 1101011001 10100101 0010101111 1101011110 00101101010 0011101101 11010101 0010011010100 101010011000 0101011010 1101011010 1110011011 1101011110 111101111 111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, his, to, her, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word samuel 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 him, building are repeated).
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