This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Brave Men that begins with:
Man, is the Sea your master? Sea, and is man your slave? –
This is the song of brave men who never know they are brave: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc Xdeeff ggbbhX ddiijj aaXXkk ddhhll hhhhjj mmnnoo XkiibbXffhhgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001110110111 00010111101111 10010011100101 100101111110101 1001111111101 10111101010101101 010011010010101110 10101011010100101 0111011000100101 10100101101100001011 10010100111001 111110010101001001 101111000111101 1011001101101001 1111111000100101 101110101101011 10101101010101001 1111111011100110010 10011100100111 101010111100101 10101001010101001 1010110100100101 111101110111111 111101010110101 100010110100101 10111101111111 1011110111011 1000110010100100110 1001010100010101 0100110100110101 100101000111001 1011101001001001 110110101011101 111001101011100001 111001010111001011 101001110111111 11010110011101011 110101101101111 100101000100101 0011110111101001 0100100100011101 010010101101111 11111100111101 0100110101011001 01001011010100001 1010111111101001 11001010101001011 01011110001001101 00010111001110 111011010111101 1010010101101 101101101101111 101100011000110001111 101101001011100001 010110010100101 111001010100111 11110010010111 110100111011011 1011010111111 111100100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (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; your, from, out, and, in, of, or, he, to, her, with, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but, in, the are repeated.
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