This is an analysis of the poem The Quadroon Girl that begins with:
The Slaver in the broad lagoon
Lay moored with idle sail;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX efef gdgd hahX Xccc ijij bibi Xccc khkh lclc jcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000101 110101 11010101 110101 10010111 110101 10110101 000110 100101011 100101 11110101 010101 010100101 110011 01011101 110101 11111101 010101 11010101 1010001 010001100 010101 111100101 010101 01011101 011101 110111011 1011101 11011101 110111 110101010 010001 110100101 010101 11010101 110101 01011111 01101 111110101 111001 101010111 1101001 111110101 011101 01010001 110101 00011100 0011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, her, and, as are repeated.
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