This is an analysis of the poem The Women Of The Sailors that begins with:
The women of the sailors, unto them, O God, be kind!
They never hear the breaking waves, they never hear the wind ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01000101001101 11010101110101 111111011100101 101000100010101 01000101001100 11111101111111 11110101010111 11110101111101 01000101001101 11010101110101 110101011110 11010011111100001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'tis, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Women Of The Sailors;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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