This is an analysis of the poem Down By The Carib Sea that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b cdc eaca ffggggaacc X X hX iX aajjdXbbXJJJ ddkkjJJJ X X gdig ddXgkgjX ll X X X add X XX X X m LlgkXklX mbDbd LlddblbXbX X mmmmbDbbbbd a m bccccc hX cnncXnccec ekekccncdcec a b caachhagggaXggdcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,3,4,10,1,1,2,2,12,8,1,1,4,8,2,1,1,1,3,1,2,1,1,1,8,5,10,1,11,1,1,6,2,10,12,1,1,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110010 1110100101 111001001 01111111 10101110 1011101 10101010 1010111 11010101 1010101 1010101 1011001 1010101 1100101 1011101 01011101 1010001 110101 1 11000 00010011 1 00 1111 11101 10111 1110111101 11111101001 101001 11010 011 101 01101000 11001001001 111001111001 111 1001010 1101001010 11011 111001 111 11001001001 111001111001 111 1 10 01001001 0 110 01001 10101111001 11110101011 111111 111101 111101 11011 1 10 100100100 00100100100 100111101 0111101011 1010 010011011 1010010 110010 1010 11111101101 1111010101 1010 1 01001 100100 10110100 1010 11011 111010 1111 100100 10110100 11011 1111001 01001 001101 011001 100100 11110100 01001 001001 1110 10100 10 1 10 1 10110100 11011 001001 1111010 01101 101111 01001 001011 1001 011101 101101 011 1 0101 11110001 011110010 111011 1110001 110010110 0101010010 00101 100 01101111 101011 101001 01011011 11111 01101 101111001 001101 11010 11101001 110110 11011 111010 11001 01101010 11101110 101011 01011 101101 11011 110101010 11101011 1 110010 010100101 1010100101 1101010101 110010111 1000101001 1011001101 11011001001001 1101110101 111101 0101 00101 10110101010101 1101111111 010101 1001011 1111010011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 171
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, smoke, in, your, lottery, now are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word take is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines smoke, lottery, passion are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words smoke, known at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase smoke connects the lines.

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