This is an analysis of the poem A Sea Song that begins with:
Old Albion sat on a crag of late,
And sung out—'Ahoy! ahoy!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcCb Xdedccd efefcCf gbgbddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110101 1111001 11001001001 1001101 11011 10111 1101101 100100100111 0111101 1110100101 10100101 10111 00101 1111111 1011011001 1110111 1100101001 1101111 11011 10111 1011111 110101101111 1011101 10110100111 11101010 11011 11111 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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