This is an analysis of the poem Second Mate that begins with:
Two-and-twenty, taut and trim,
Likes the girls and the girls like him:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeeffgghh iijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 10110111 1010101 10101011 1011111 10010101 11100100101 100111101 100101111 111101111 11101111010 00101011110 10010011110 110111110 1110101001 101001001001 1110010110 01101111011 00101101001 01001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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