This is an analysis of the poem Sweethearts And Wives that begins with:
The very first voyage as ever I made
I went to sea in the East Coast trade,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbA ccbbddA eeddcXffA X ccXXXXbbggfdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,9,1,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011011 110100111 1110011101 001110011101 110 11110010010 00111001010 1111111111 010011101 11110101101 001110011101 110 111100101 00111011011 101111111 010011101 1111000110 11111001010 1101111010 1101111010 110 11111 11110010110 11101111010 1011100101 11100100100 00100110101 11101111101 111011101 11111011111 111011101 11011011011 11011001010 11111011011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, her, and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word did at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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