This is an analysis of the poem The Spirits Of Our Fathers that begins with:
THE SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,
They left the sea behind them long ago;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaab cdcccd efeeef gbggggb ahaaah fXfffc igiiig hbhhhb Xbjjjb fbffffbXffffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001101101001 1101010101 01100010111101 101011101100101 101010111110101 10101111101 111010111110111 10100110101 111010101010111 111000111010101 111011101110111 11101110111 101011101011101 01101110111 111111101110111 101010101011101 1010101111110101 10101010101 0100110111101 1101110111 11011101110001 11111111010101 101011110010101 111010101010101 10101010101 01001101101001 1101111101 111010101011101 101110101010001 101010101010101 11100010101 0100110110101 11101110100 111010101010101 0010011101010101 101111101010101 10101010101 1010011101110111 10111010111 101101101010111 111110101010111 101011000110111 10100010101 111001100010001 101011101001 101110101010111 101001101011101 111011101110111 10101010101 111001101010111 1101010101 001101101010001 1011101010110111 101110100110101 10101110111 1001100111010101 11101010101 101010100110001 101011101111101 001100111010101 111001100110101 11110110101 1011001010100101 10101010101 101111101011001 101011011010001 101011101010101 10100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; of, and, some, their, they, spirit are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some are repeated.
The author used the same words the, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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