This is an analysis of the poem Landlubbers that begins with:
I nigh drops dead (the bo'sun said)
When the gist of things I grip... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcbaaB DeaedbaaB afgXcbggB DhXhXbXfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1010111 001111101 11111111 110101001 11010111 110100111 10011101 11110111 1111011111 1111001 1110100111 111111 111111101 0001101 1110100111 101110101 11110111 11110101 111110 110011111 110110 1111111001 1111011 11110101 11110111 11110111 1111011111 1011111 1110101011 110111 01111111 1011101 11111111 101011101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, they, sea, an', for are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ship at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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