This is an analysis of the poem The Fighting Téméraire - Bone Prisoner Model that begins with:

No tusk from trackless jungle brought,
No bone of slaughtered whale...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcdcededfgfgchchdfdfijijXcXcjdXX dbabajfjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 110101 0101100101 110111 111101010 010101 11110101 010101 10110100 111101 01100100 010111 11010111 1101011 11010101 1111001 11111100 110111 110001001 111111 11010101 011101 110011101 010111 111101101 111111 010100111 011101 110101010 011101 0011001110 110101 11011101 010111 10110 1 010101 10010011 100111 010100101 011101 10011111 010101 11010001 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1394
  • Average number of words per stanza: 249
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, old, as are repeated.

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