Georgie Sails To-Morrow! by Henry Clay Work: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Georgie Sails To-Morrow! that begins with:

For sixteen years, a merry, laughing maiden,
I have warbl'd only songs of joy;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababca DADA XeXeca fgfgda ahahcaXCACA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,6,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100101010 111010101 10011101010 101110101 11011111010 11110101 11011101011 111111101 11011101011 111111101 11111001100 111111111 11010111010 111010111 11111101110 11110101 11110101010 101010111 11010101010 111010111 11011111011 11111111 01111101010 111010001 01011101010 011011101 11110100110 11011111 11011101010 111111101 11011101010 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; he, my, knows are repeated.

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