This is an analysis of the poem An Onset that begins with:
Hallo ye, my fellows! arise and advance,
See the white-crested waves how they stamp and they dance!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhddiijjkkcXjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10111001101 101101111111 11001101011 11011001011 11011011011 11111111011 1110110101 11011101001 11101001111 11111111001 11001111011 110110011111 01111001111 11011001110 01101101101 11011001011 11111001111 01001101101 01101011011 101001101011 111110011011 11011101101 110111011001 010110011001 11111011011 11111011010 01001001001 1011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1361
- Average number of words per stanza: 260
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, gather, we, ask, to, you, rush are repeated.
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- summary of An Onset;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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