This is an analysis of the poem Our Jack that begins with:
Twelve years ago our Jack was lost. All night,
Twelve years ago, the Spirit of the Storm... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXdeafefaddgbfhdfbXijbdefhkXXfjcddic jabjafacalajiaaXl dafalefejklcbegXkaicdkdXljhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,17,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111111 1001010001 1111010101 1101010101 1111010100 0101011111 0111111101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1111010111 0101100111 0111010111 1101010001 1111111101 0101000101 1001011101 0111011101 0101010101 1110010101 01010010101 11000101010 1011010101 0101110111 1101110111 1101010001 1111110111 1001011100 1111110101 0101010111 1101110101 0101011101 1111010101 1101111111 1101110111 1101010011 11011111110 0101011101 0111000101 0101110101 1101010001 1111010101 1101100111 0101110111 1101010001 1101101101 1101011100 1111111101 0101010101 1101000101 1111110001 1101000101 1111010111 0111111111 1111001101 0101 110111 1111010111 010101011101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110111 0101000101 1111111111 0101111011 0111011101 1111111100 1101000101 1111011101 1101111101 1101111101 1111000111 1111010011 0101011111 0101010101 1111010101 1101001111 0101111010 1101010101 1101011000 1111111101 1101111001 1101111111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1195
- Average number of words per stanza: 231
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, of, to, jack, nor, you, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words twelve, the, and, nor are repeated.
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- summary of Our Jack;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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