This is an analysis of the poem The Lowlands Of Flanders that begins with:

THE night that I was married
Our Captain came to me:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb Deee Xfdf Xgeg daga hcXc bbabXhbDb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110 110101 11111101 111101 1011010 011111 11111111 111101 111110 111111 0011010 010101 0111010 110111 11111111 011101 011010 110111 11110111 110111 1111110 010101 01011101 111101 1101101 011111 0111110 110111 1101110 111101 1011010 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; my, 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.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Lowlands Of Flanders;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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