This is an analysis of the poem The Fighting Merchantmen that begins with:
As I looked over the water - as I looked over the foam,
I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging home;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb CXcddbX bX aacc CXcddbX eecX bbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,2,4,7,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101111001 111111011100101 110100101101001011 110100101001001001 110100101101001 110111011001010 100100100100101 110001011000101 11010100111111 111010010011011011 010010001001110101 10111111011011 10101110110010100 111100101111001 1101011011001001 11011011110111 110100111110001 110100101101001 110111011001010 1001110011101 110100101100101 110101011010101 11011101111001 101010101110100 111101010011101 110110011111101 111101010010001 1110100110111111 11111101111111 11010111110101 11011101111111 10101110010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, her, from, to, or, our, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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