This is an analysis of the poem Sir Humphrey Gilbert that begins with:
Southward with fleet of ice
Sailed the corsair Death;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbadedcdcd Xefe ecfc geXX ceXe fhch hege gada eiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 10101 111101 1011101 010101 10001 1111101 1010101 010111 10101 1111101 10111001 1001000 110101 11111011 1010111 010111 111101 11011111 1110101 110101 011001 1011100110 1110101110 0011001 010101 100111000 01011101 0110101 010001 1001101 1010101 110011 111111 1001101 1000111 101111 110101 0111100101 1111101 1001010 111111 11010011 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word southward 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 failed is repeated).
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