This is an analysis of the poem The 'Ole In The Ark that begins with:
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark,
Putting green oil in starboard side lamp,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe fXgX hidf eaea jggg acgc eklk XXkX eXaX jhgh hggg fjajXliei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111101101 101101011 01101111101 11001011 101111111101 11001111 11101101011 0110011011 111011001011 1110011100 111101111110 010011100 1111111001101 101101100 111101001011 001001011 11001101101 11111101 1011001011101 101111001 111101100111 111111110 101101101101 011011011 01011011001 11001001 101011111111 11001101 01101101011 11101111 101101101101 11111001 111010101101 111011100 111101111001 101011101 1111011101010 1101011010 11101111001 111001011 101011001011 11011001 101111101011 11011111 11101011011 11101111 101111111011 11101101 110110101101 11011101 011101111001 111101011 1111011110111 110101010 1101101101 110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, we, and, it, per, in, her, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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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