This is an analysis of the poem The Last Of The Sealing Fleet that begins with:
All in the slime of the stagnant Arm, the mouldering slips beside,
Where dark as sin slinks out and in the fouled and furtive tide,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecX eecX ffbX bbaX XXbX ffcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001010100101 11111110011101 11010101011101 110001001001111 101001101110111 01110101111101 11010101110111 10110001101101 11010101010111 110011101010101 1110110100010111 111111110101110 110101010100111 11110101110101 010100101010111 01001101011011101 10010100111101 01010101010111 11011011110101 11010111110111 11111101010111 0111101010111 11011111111011 110101011110010 11000101011101 110100101110001 10110101110101 1011111100110 11010101010111 110010111011101 11010101101111 111111111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, their, i, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word 'oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Last Of The Sealing Fleet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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