This is an analysis of the poem Sailormen that begins with:
When our ship gets home again, after cruising up and down,
Where the old, familiar hills crowd above the little town,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111011010111 10101011010101 11101010010001 111010110101101 00100011011101 0101011011101 11101011110111 11101011010111 111010011110101 00101110010101 101110011110111 10111010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; and, we'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and are repeated.
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