This is an analysis of the poem Fishermen—not Of Galilee that begins with:
THEY have toiled all the night, the long weary night,
They have toiled all the night, Lord, and taken nothing:-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe Xfbf Xgbg adgc Xhgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101101 111101111010 010111111111 1101011010 111010011010 01001011111 1110010110 100101101 1011111101 1010111001 10110100010 1111111011 1010010100 1011011011 1001011110 1101011101 1111110101 1111101011 11111110011 01000101101 11110111010 1010011001 01111110011 1110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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; all, night, and, waters, thou, thee, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same word though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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