This is an analysis of the poem The Pilgrim Fathers that begins with:
The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd efef fdfd gaga hfhf dhdh aiai djdjXhhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 1011111 101010101 110101 1010111 0111010 101011111 1011101 1101001 101101 100100101 10101101 110101 010101 110100101 0110101 010111 1011101 10101000111 0010001 010101 001101101 1010100101 011101 1010101 010101 11110101 0101101 1110101 110111 1110101001 10100101 111101 110001 01010101 110111 110101 011111 111011111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words not, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Pilgrim Fathers;
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