This is an analysis of the poem Mayflower that begins with:
THUNDER our thanks to her—guns, hearts and lips!
Cheer from the ranks to her, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbAcddceeaa ffbbbbXgXgdXbabA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001111 100100 100100 1101111011 11010010010 11101001 1001011011 100111010 1000011011 1011001001 100111010011 1101111011 11011110110 11010110010 1011011100100 1011011100100 1111001001100 1111001001100 11010110010 10011010110 11010110010 10011010110 110110010010 11011011110 1100100111100 1011001101 101100100100 1101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, her, in, for, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mayflower is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ships at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Mayflower;
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