This is an analysis of the poem Hudson's Last Voyage that begins with:

June 22, 1611
THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a abcdefgghgXfeigXdjgfeegcakblmenlgcfdagX cnfgbjfoXfebeegchpXgdcafXncfcfXfciahmikFcqff eXcXecfaifdcoejgkgaccclcahccdX fecdgidfgceje cpigccdehdbgifejffcgfaheqcfgafgckXXhlgfdaeebjhelllqiFc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,39,44,30,13,54,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111 0101101 1101010101 1101111101 1111010111 1101011101 1101010101 1101000101 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101 0111010111 11100 0101 0101010111 1111011100 1100110101 1110010010 1111111011 1111010101 110110101 1011001101 1101110101 01111110010 1101110100 1101110001 1011000101 1101110111 11 11111101 1110110101 1011011111 0101000101 1111010101 1101111111 1101010101 1100010001 0111010101 1101001111 10101010101 101110001010 1101011101 1001110001 01010101110 1111010001 1001010111 1101110101 1101110101 1100011111 1101010110 1101010111 1001110101 1011000111 1011010010 1101110101 1101011111 1101111111 0111011101 1101010001 10011111110 0101000111 0101111101 1111001111 1101100101 0111010111 0100010 101 1111010101 1001101101 1101010111 0101010101 1011101100 1011010101 1100010001 1111010111 0101111001 1111011111 1111010011 0100010101 0111111011 0101000101 1111011101 0101110111 0101010101 10101110101 1111110011 111101001110 1111111111 0101110101 0101010101 1101010100 1101011101 1101111101 0011010101 1101011101 0101000101 1111011111 11010 11101 1101011001 1111110111 0101010101 0101011100 0101000101 1101000111 0011010101 0101010101 0111001101 1101110101 0100010001 1111010001 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 01010010100 1111111101 0101110111 1101110101 0101010111 1101010110 0101110101 1111010101 10001010011 0111010001 1111011101 0111011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 0111010111 10111010011 1101010001 0111000101 1101000101 0101010101 0111011101 010011110111 0101010011 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 1111000101 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 0101110101 110100110001 010101110101 01110101110 1101001111 0101010001 1101010001 0101010001 0111000101 0101011101 1100010101 1001010101 0101010111 1100010111 01101010101 1101010101 011100010100 1111011101 1101011101 1111110011 1111111101 1101110101 11010101001 11010100101 0101000101 1101110101 0101001101 1111010111 0101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1111011111 1101111011 11101000101 0101000101 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 965
  • Average number of words per stanza: 175
  • Amount of lines: 181
  • 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; mine, and, that, you, of, to, have, we, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you, clean, somewhere are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mine is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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