This is an analysis of the poem The North Sea Ground that begins with:
Oh, Grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find,
An' Grimsby wives are thrifty wives, an' Grimsby girls are kind;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa XXXa bbba XXXa ccca bbba XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101110111 11011101110111 11011101010101 11111010111 1011101011010 110101001110 1010110111010 11111010111 100101111101 110101110111 110101010111 11111010111 1011101111010 0111111101100 1010101101010 00101010111 01110111011111 01110101110101 010100101010101 10111010111 01010101110101 01011100010110 01000111110101 101101010111 10111010111 111011010111 110101010111 10111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; grimsby, an', on, to, sea are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', it's, good are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ground at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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