This is an analysis of the poem The Old Cruiser that begins with:
HERE 's the old cruiser, 'Twenty-nine,
Forty times she 's crossed the line;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh ggaa iiff eejX ggjX kkii kkaa cccc aabX ccbb eekk llkk ddaa iimm aaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 10111101 1111111 11111011 000101101 1111111100 100101111 10111011 10101001 11110101 10011101 10100101 10010101 100111101 1111111 10011101 1110111 1110111 10011101 1011101 101111 11010101 11010101 01101001 11101101 110101101 110101101 11111111 10101101 100101101 110011101 1011100101 111101111 011101101 110101011 1100100101 100101001 110110101 100101101 101101101 11101101 10100101 1111111 11101111 11111111 10110011 11011011 1110111 10010101 10110101 1110111 101101111 1111111 10111111 1111011 100101111 1111111 11101101 0111111 101111101 1011111 10101101 10101101 11111101 100100111 101100101 1111101 110010111 101101111 10101110 1011101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, some, you, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
The author used the same word 'if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Old Cruiser;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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