This is an analysis of the poem The High Tide On The Coast Of Lincolnshire that begins with:
The old mayor climbed the belfry tower,
The ringers ran by two, by three;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbddX Xefeffe XdcdgXg HhhHXXXh HhIIIJiIIfJIX khkhlXm bXbnffX cgXgbbX bdbdbbm XnXnbbX nnnnXgG nlnXgXX bhbXbXX jfjffff jXjnjjj XjXjbbb jbjbbbX ffffggX cXXclll lblbXgG ccHhhHXXXnn caaahchIIIJiIiXfif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,8,13,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,11,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101010 01011111 10110101 01011111 11111101 11110111 11110100 11010101 01110111 10111101 01010111 11110101 01011101 110110111 11110101 11111111 01011101 11000101 11011101 11110100 110110100 10101010 10101010 1011101 1010101 10101010 1010 00111010 1010101 10101010 10101010 11111010 1010 11101010 111001111 10101010 1010 11101110 0010111 111001111 11101110 1000101 00011101 11100111 10110101 11110111 11010101 11010111 11010100 11010101 11010101 111101001 010100101 11011111 11010101 11001100 01011101 11010101 01011110 111010100 110100101 11110101 010010100 11110001 11011101 01010101 11010101 11111010 110101111 11010100 11010100 01010101 110010101 11110101 11011101 110111001 11110100 11011111 11010111 11011111 11010101 10001000 01010111 111010100 11111101 01011101 11010101 110101010 11111111 11110111 10111000 11110101 00111101 11111001 01110101 11010101 01011100 11110100 01111101 11010101 0101101 11010101 010100101 11010111 11010001 11010101 110100110 11010101 110100101 111101011 11011101 11010101 1111011 01110101 01010101 10010111 01110101 01010101 11011001 01011111 01011101 11010101 100110111 01011101 11011001 10011100 11010101 01011101 11111111 11010101 11110101 11011101 11111000 11110111 11111101 01011101 11010111 11010101 01011111 11001101 111010101 11110101 01011101 0111111 11010111 11010111 111010100 1110101 1010101 10101010 10101010 1110101 1010101 10101010 110 00111010 1010101 1010001 1110101 10111010 1010 10101010 10100010 0010101 11101010 11111010 1010 11101010 111001111 11101010 1010 11111110 11100 0110101 11101010 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 177
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; uppe, floweth, come, long, where, her, then, to, and, thou, didst, thy, mellow, hollow, follow are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, come, then, and, o, that are repeated.
The author used the same words 'cusha, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines floweth, mellow, hollow, ', quiver are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' 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 words/phrases floweth, mellow, hollow connect the lines.
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