This is an analysis of the poem The Shipwrecked Sailor that begins with:
There blossomed into golden day another rosy morn:
The ship-wrecked sailor woke, and watched again, of hope forlorn,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11000101010101 01110111010101 00110101010101 01010101010101 01011011010111 01011101100101 11110111010101 110010001001101 01010101001101 11110101110111 11010101111101 110000101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 729
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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More information about poems by Harry Kemp
- Analysis of Sailormen
- Analysis of The Beach Comber
- Analysis of The Chantey Of The Cook (Dithyramb Of A Discontented Crew)
