This is an analysis of the poem The I'D Like To Be........ Series that begins with:
The Sailor
I'd like to be a sailor - a sailor bold and bluff -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbbbbC addddXbdC XeXeeebeC afXXffbfC adXdddbdC dgggggbgC ahhhhhbhC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 1100010010111 10110100010111 11010101011111 11110101110101 01110111111111 111000100 011101 11 010 1100010111101 101101000110101 1011101110101 10101011101001 11110010111010100 111000100 010101 11 010 1100010110101 10110111010 10111110111 111110111111 111110101 111000100 110101 11 010 1100010110111 1011011100110 11111101010110 11010101110111 1111100010101 111000100 010101 11 010 1100010110101 101100010011011010 10110111111101 11011111110001 11110101110101 111000100 110101 11 010 1100010110101 101101010010011 101001110111 0111101110111 01110100010111 111000100 010111 11 010 1100010111101 101101010111 1000101111111 1010101010101 101110110101 111000100 110101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, to, sailor, i'd, be, pies, lots, snip are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'd is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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