This is an analysis of the poem We Fish that begins with:
We fish, we fish, we merrily swim,
We care not for friend nor for foe.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCB dedeXXcaXfXfXgdgXABCCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111001 11111111 1111 1111 110111 11111011 1011110110 111001011 1010110010 11110001 111001001 010010010 11011001 01101111 111001011 01011011 11011001 11101101 11101001 11110111 11100101 111111001 11111111 1111 1111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; we, fish, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, our, and are repeated.
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