This is an analysis of the poem The Vagabond that begins with:
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier
As we glide to the grand old sea -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cdcdebeb bdfdegeg bhbhfXba ididiaia ijijgkgk ebebeheh dldlifdb dedeimim ddddhaha eXeiicXc icic ececihihXacacgbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1100100111 11100111 10101101101 0100111 01010101 101111 111101101 10100101 111011 111011 11111101 100101 11100101 111011 11111101 0100101 0111101001 1110111 0100100100 00110101 01001001011 0110101 010100101 10111001 0110110111 1100101 111101101 1101111 010100100 111001110 110100111 0100011 010110111 0100111 111110101 1101101 1110100101 1010111 111010101 0010101 10110111 100101 1111111101 001001001 1011101001 101101 11111111 01001001 0101011001 1110110 011101111 0100111 110101101 0110101 1110111101 0101101 1100111111 1010101 1111110101 1111111 01001010111 00110100 010110101 10100111 110100101 0100101 111101101 1100101 1010100101 1100101 110100100 0110101 110111111 01111001 1010101101 1111111 1010011101 1100111 0100101101 111101 110110101 1100101 110100111 1101001 111010110 0010101 110100101 00101001 1110110101 11101101 1110100111 0100111 010110101 11100101 010110101 1010101 011100101 0111011 1111100101 1100101 010100111 1011101 011010101 1011101 110101111 1100111 011110101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 109
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, my, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, i, we, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words a, i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sea is repeated).
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