This is an analysis of the poem A Chantey Of Labor's Lost that begins with:
There on the quay sobbed Bones, A.B.,
And he took me by the hand.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcXcdec aXfXXghgdeg ihfhibabdeb adXdXcbcdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101111 1111101 11011101 10100111 011110111 1111010 1100100100 101001110 1 011111001 0111110 11001111 11100100 111001001001 0010011011 11101001101 10100101 1011100101 1111111 1 011111001 1110111 1011111001 110111 11011001001 001001001 11101110 11001111 110111111 00110111 1 010101001 1110111 101001111 1011111 10100100101 1100101 11110111 001001110 1010110111 11001110 1 0101010110 1001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an' is repeated.
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