This is an analysis of the poem Shipmate Sorrow that begins with:
I was shipmates with Sorrow in a day gone by;
We shared the wheel and look-out, old Sorrow and I:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa ddbX eeff ggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111101000111 110111111011 0111111011 0111011111 1110101110111 101100010101 1110011010111 01011010111 11111100111 01101011111 11011111101011 011010101010 1101001010101 1001111100111 01111011101 101111010101 1011010111000 10111011111101 1010011010101 101101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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