This is an analysis of the poem An Officer Bewails The Neglect With Which He Is Treated that begins with:
It floats about, that boat of cypress wood,
Now here, now there, as by the current borne....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc dedeeaeaa bdbddcdcc dbdbbabaa dbdbbfbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1111110101 1111101101 1101110111 0101011101 1101110101 1101011101 11111100101 010011111101 1101010101 01010010001 0011010101 1101011101 1011111101 1111011001 11110111001 0111011101 010101110101 1101110101 01101000001 1111011101 11001010101 1111011101 0100010001 1101110111 1111010111 010101110101 1101001101 0101010101 1001010101 11100111001 1101100101 1111111111 0101100101 11011111001 111001111111 1111110001 1111011111 1111111101 1111011101 0101110101 1001011011 1011011101 1101010101 111101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; i, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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