This is an analysis of the poem The Drowned Mariner that begins with:
A MARINER sat on the shrouds one night;
The wind was piping free; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbbbbb acaacddee fgffgXddd fdffdeeee dcddcdddd abaabhhbb ihiihaajX kckkcddll djdXjbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110111 011101 111110111 10111001001 1110001 011100101 010011101 10110101101 11100100111 0100111101 1010111 101010111 1010111101 110111 1111101001 1111110101 111011111 110111111 1100110111 11100101 010100111 101010101 1010111 010110101110 110111001001 1100100101 11111001001 1011111011 111101 1110100101 010101001 1010101 110110111 0010110111 00101100101 1100101101 0100111101 011111 1011101001 1011110111 110101 011100101 1010011111 1101111101 011100101 1011001001 011111 1101010101 010110101 11111000 10101101010 10101101010 1010110101 1110110101 0100101101 0010101 01001111001 0101110101 111101 011111101 0100110111 01110101 1101010010 111010101 1010111 101011111 101110101 111101 0110111111 11001001001 0011100101 1110100101 010100101 0101111 010110101 010010110 0100101 1010101101 1010111101 11011011001 01001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 81
- 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; , and, they, it, alone, to, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, bethink, to, where are repeated.
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- summary of The Drowned Mariner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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