This is an analysis of the poem Discoverer Of The North Cape. A Leaf From King Alfred's Orosius. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) that begins with:
Othere, the old sea-captain,
Who dwelt in Helgoland,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbc dceec Xfggf hhiih Cehhe Cieei jchhc hhaah chkkh lmbbm ajiij nahha eokko dcllc clppX hiffi acaac Xdjje Xiqqi nXjXX nfhhf acbbc hbccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110 110100 011001001 1011101 11100111 01011110 1010101 0111011 11001001 100101 1011110 01101001 00101001 1011101 1100111 11010010 1010101 1110101 0111101 000101 11110010 111101 00111101 10101011 0010101 11110010 001001001 0110111 0011101 1101111 1111011 011101 1110001 1001111 110101 1101010 1111111 1011001 101111 0110001 1101011 1010100 1010101 1111111 110011 10101010 111111 1111101 111111 1110111 101011010 00101001 1101101 1010101 110111 11110110 110111 110101 110101 001111 1110011 010101 011101 010111 110101 1111110 010111 1011101 101101 110111 1111010 110101 1001001 101111 011101 11010010 110101 1101001 0011101 1101001 11001110 110111 1011011 111101 1111001 1101110 110100 11100101 110101 000101 11110010 010101 11110101 110101 110101 101011010 100100 011111 110010 110001 1100110 100101 110011 011101 010011 11001110 111111 1110101 110101 0101001 10010010 010001 100101 1101111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 115
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words 'so, 'i, 'to, 'and, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word seas at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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