This is an analysis of the poem Air--Three Fishers Went Sailing. that begins with:
Three attorneys came sailing down Chancery Lane,
Down Chancery Lane e'er the courts had sat;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccd cbcbX XbXbcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101011011001 11001100111 11001011001 10101111101 11011111 110001011001 10101010 1101101101 01101100111 11001001001 101101111011 110111100 110010011 011100111 10101011011 01111010101 11011111 11101001001 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
The author used the same word three at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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