This is an analysis of the poem The Steeple-Jack that begins with:
Dürer would have seen a reason for living
in a town like this, with eight stranded whales...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbX efbdfg bhXihj djkdlh imbbmg Xbdkbd gddkXd dddhdc mnfinn chjfhb Xhgbhm jjmdlX aonhoe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111010110 0011001101 01100111100011 10110101 01110101 101 11101110111 1011110011 11001011011011 10100001 10001011 101 01010001010 101010111 01100100111110 11110101 11011101 010 11111001101 1101100110 11010000100011 10100111 11010001 1101 11101011111 010110101 11101100100011 11110101 11111101 1011 1111101100 11101101010 10111101001111 010011101 11010111 010 011101010001 1111101010 11101111010111 11111100 11010100 101 01111110101 1111110101 01011110101010 11111011 00110111 111 11111110100 0110110001 01010101111001 10111010 10001101 001 11101010101 1011010101 11010010110110 11111101 01111101 111 10011011110 1010101011 10011111001101 110100100 11011101 110 10011100100 11011011000 11101100110101 01010010 01011001 011 01101000010 0011001010 11010110101101 11010010 10111010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Steeple-Jack;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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