This is an analysis of the poem The Lone Hand that begins with:
She took her tide and she passed the Bar with the first o' the morning light;
She dipped her flag to the coast patrol at the coming on o' the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcCb XXccdCCD eedCCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011110100110101 11010010110101101 111010010110110101 1111110101 110110101 100111 1010111011011110 1 11 11101111011110111 10101101011101101 110110101 110110101 100111 11101111011110101 011011011111100101 11001101111100101 110110101 110110101 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; she, o', and, her, it, played, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines now is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word game at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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