This is an analysis of the poem Tom Deadlight that begins with:
Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties,--
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXca defghidg geijbebj fkejeaX iikbXak clcgehc lcdXead
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,8,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011010 11101011001 11011010110 10 110011011 01 1111100111 011 111110101 101 0111011110 11 1101010101 1 1110101011 1010 1110101111 1 11110110110 11 10101110 1001 11011101011 1 01101111 1001 11100111110 11 11101010001 110011011011 111101101 1101 11000010110 10 1110110110 11 0100110110 10 01001001001 111110111 110 1011100110 11 111111011110 1111100010 1 11111011001 1 1110110111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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; for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word farewell is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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