This is an analysis of the poem Sinbad, It Was Not Well To Brag that begins with:
Sinbad, the Barnacle Bill of Araby,
Carried upon his back the Old Man of the Sea,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXcXadaeeXfaccggXdXhiiddgXaaXXjkkjllddfkkfhaha fXjj aXmffmdXmd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010100 100101011001 101101 11100111 11 100101101 010100001 101010101 1000110 1001001001 1001 001001 01011101 1010101 0110001000 1110111 10010101 111010101 110101011 01001 10101 00101001010 10110101 101111000 1011010110 100111010 0101001010 11 1100101 1111 101101010 1100111 1011110101 11011 1110010100 001010101 0101101001 110101101 101110101 1111010 11101001010 1101000010 11001110010 110010101 1010011111 1101 1111100101 101010 001001 1010101110 11100101 01010111 1001010 01011 1001011 11011010 11010000 11011101 1011101101 11011001001 1101001 0111111 110000101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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