This is an analysis of the poem So Long (All Coiled Down) that begins with:
All coiled down, an' it's time for us to go;
Every sail's furled in a neat harbour stow;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ddaa eeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011101 100110001101 0101111100101 1111000101 11111110111 101110110101 1011110111101 101011101010111 001111001111 001011010111 1011101010101 111010101101 00111110111 10111011111 010101010111 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; for, an', you, when, nor, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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