This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Perfect Propriety that begins with:
Oh, I should like to ride the seas,
A roaring buccaneer;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc dadadede fgfgaaaa adXdXhah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010101 01010111 010111 111100111 110111 111101001 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 011101 11110111 011101 11110101 110101 11110111 111111 11010101 110101 11010100 1100001 11110101 111111 11010101 111101 11010001 010101 11110101 111111 11110101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 words a, and are repeated.
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- summary of Song Of Perfect Propriety;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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