This is an analysis of the poem An Impetuous Resolve that begins with:
When little Dickie Swope's a man,
He's go' to be a Sailor;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcbab ddXdcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 1100010 11010101 0100010 11010100 0101010 11110111 0100010 1110101 1111010 11110101 1101110 11111111 1111100 01011101 1001100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; an' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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- summary of An Impetuous Resolve;
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- history of its creation;
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