This is an analysis of the poem On The Wreck Of The Halsewell that begins with:
A FRAGMENT.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbXcccddeeffaacccffaagg ddhhiiccccaahhhhiifXaajjkk jjggffccllaXjjggaa llffccddmmccnnooXcffXfkkjj hhllffpp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,23,26,18,26,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010 1011010101 01001000101 01011001101 11010010101 10011010101 1011010111 11001010101 0111111101 01111111010 10110111010 11110100101 11001011111 1101011101 1111010001 1100111101 0111000101 1111000101 0111010101 110101101001 1001010101 11111101001 1011111101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 11001000101 1111110101 1011010101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010101 11001011001 11110100101 0101000101 1110010101 0011100101 1011001101 1101010101 11000100111 0101000101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011110101 1111110101 1001110001 0011010101 1110110101 1101010101 11110101001 1111010101 0101000111 1011110101 11001010111 1101010101 0101010101 1100001001 01111101001 1111110101 11000010010 1101011101 1001011101 1111010101 0101000101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 01010110001 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 0111010101 11010101001 1101010101 0101010101 0101110101 1101010101 010100100101 1101010101 1101010001 11010101100 1101110101 10111100101 1101010001 101110101010 1111110111 1101110111 0101000101 1101011101 1011010101 10011001101 1101000111 1101010101 0101011101 0101010111 1111110001 1111010101 11110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 759
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, their, her, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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