This is an analysis of the poem A Sailor's Life that begins with:
Oh, a sailor hasn't much to brag -
An oilskin suit and a dunnage bag. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeddXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101 110110101 11001010 101011101 011110100 101010100 101111101 101011101 101010101 111011101 01010101 11010101 110111101 101110101 110111001 0010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of A Sailor's Life;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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