This is an analysis of the poem John Marr And Other Sailors that begins with:
Since as in night's deck-watch ye show,
Why, lads, so silent here to me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdceceff dXdXdgghhg iiiiiffiijejebb hhhhXhhbdada XkXklflfiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,15,12,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11110101 11001101 1110101 11101110 1001101 10101110 1011111 10111010 1110111 110101110 1111101 1011101 1001101 110100101 011111100 01010101 110111010 1010111 11110111 11110111 10101010 1001010010 0011001 11111111 1011101 11001110 1001100010 1011001 11011111 11010101 111101001 110010101 110111110 1011111 01000110010 10010001 10111101 111100101 10101010 10010101 010111010 010011101 11011100 0111011010 10101110 1010101 111101010 1010101 110001110 010110101 1100101010 01110111 100111110 1011111 110011101 110101 01011101 111111 01010101 01110101 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; storm, heart, beat are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
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