This is an analysis of the poem A Mixed Crew that begins with:
Tho' it sounds a trifle mystic,
Somewhat vague and cabbalistic,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbacc Ddeeaa ffghhgcX DXiidd ffeaaeii aaXXjjkkaeeaaa XDdaaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,6,8,14,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 11111000 11101000101 00100010 10100010 10101010011 001010100010101 101010100010101 1110111101 101111010111 10101010111 1001110101 01011101010011 111000111110101 10101010 10101010 11100010101 10100010 10101010 11101110101 10110101011101 11010100110101 1110111101 110001010101010 101001100101 11010010001 1011010101 10111011101 1101010 10101010 11101010001 10101010 11101110 0011110011 101011110010011 01101001110111 1110111101 101110110101 10101010101 10101010001 111010010101 11111011101 11101010 10101010 10101010101 10101010 10101010 11111110101 11010111010100 101010111111001 1110111101 1010100010101 10001110101 10101110101 101010010101 11011100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Mixed Crew;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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