This is an analysis of the poem Shipmates (1914) that begins with:
Good-bye and fare ye well; for we'll sail no more together,
Broad seas and narrow in fair or foul weather:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccdd cXee eeaaXddbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111111010 11110011110 1111010011011 1111111111 101110111101010 0101110111010 10101111101 011101011110 0111111101010 110011101010 0011010101101 11110011101 1110101110001 101011101011101 1011100101110 111010111010 0111111110011 1010111101111 11101111101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, from, ye are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ye is repeated).
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