This is an analysis of the poem The Sailor-Boy that begins with:
Tis three years and a quarter since I left my own fireside
To go aboard a ship through love, and plough the ocean wide.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd XeaX ddbb eeff gggg XXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101011111101 01010111110101 1111011010101 10101011010111 0100011110011 0110011110101 1101110111111 1101110110101 0111010010101 10111010111101 10101011111 11101111111110 01010101010101 110111011101 1111011110101 11101010111111 11100110010101 0101010111001 11010100011101 1111110111001 1111010010101 11010100101001 0101010110111 101000101010101 11110100111010 11011100111010 0101010110111 11110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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