This is an analysis of the poem The Pirate's Only Delight that begins with:
Hey, bullies, ho, bullies, what have ye seen,
Flying with the seagulls where the sea was green?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bcbC dd bcbc ee bcXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,2,4,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101111 10001110111 11101010 1010111 1101010 1101 11011010101 101110101110101 011110 01101 1101010 10101 11011011101 111011110101 0101110 01101 1101010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Pirate's Only Delight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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