This is an analysis of the poem Torpedo Boats that begins with:
There be poets in plenty have sung in the praise
Of the famous old names out of Old Navy days,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcXb ddeX ffffgghh bgiXb bbddee cciiggff jjbbffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,8,5,6,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101001011001 001011101101 0 100111010 0101010 1 10 101101001101 001111011101 11001101001 1101111111 11101011001 110011011011 01101001111 101001001111 11111101011 1011001011101 101110001101 01101111111 101011011001 0111 110 1 1101 011101101001 11101111111 11011001011 111111111101 11001011001 11101011011 1011010110010 1010010111010 101101011011 01101101001 101001011101 111101010011 11001011001 0101111101 111001011001 01011011001 101001001001 01101001001 11011011111 111001101001 010111010010 1011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their, and, to, there, her, be, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, there are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase not connects the lines.
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