This is an analysis of the poem Herve Riel that begins with:
On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety two,
Did the English fight the French,--woe to France!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaba bXccbbcX dedfefddefX ggaadXhGhhg ddfdgggX cfccXieeXXejiijckdkdc Gglbl bbdddmmdlgggg nkknbebeXbdcXXdXiffi dddbbdbccX XmaaejjeiXXi ggcmmmcmcmcbbiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,11,11,8,21,5,13,20,10,12,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010110101 0010101101 10101011010101 101010100010101 1101110110101 0010101 10101010010011 11110010011100 1111111 1010101 1110001 1010001 111011101111101 1010111 10100011111111 1111111110111 10101011010111 10100010011101 10101011010101 1010111001010101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1111101 1010101 1110101 1110001 100101111110101 11110011010111 1010101 1010110 1010001 1001101 1010111 1011111010101 1110101 1011111 110111 1111111010111 0100010011101 1110111 0010001 101010101110101 0110101110100 111001101110111 1111101110111 10101111110101 11101001100101001 101011110101000 1111101001011 111111 1110011 10111011010100 101110110111010 11111011011101 1011101 1010101 1010001 1010101 11101111010111 1010011 1110111 1011101 1111101 1110111111111 1001101 1101111 1011011010101 1010101 1010001 1011111 1010101 1011001 1010101 101010101001101 111111 1110001 10111011011101 1011101 010101 11100001 111111010111 1010111 1010101 110111 10110001 11111001 1110001 1010101 1111101 1110001 110010010101010 1101011110100 1110101 1010111 111101 1011001 1011111 11 1110111 1010001 0011101 1011101 1110011 1111101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1111101 0110010 1011101 101101111111000 1010110 1010111 1010111 1110101 1111111 1110101 101010101100101 1111111 1010101 1001101 101111111101100 1111111101 1110111 1010101 0010101011001 1010111 1010101 01000011111101 1111001110101 1010111 1010111 1010111 111101111011 1110111 110111 011111111 10101011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 477
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 140
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, ship, in, us, to, for, you, every, and, not, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, not, you, since are repeated.
The author used the same word then 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 Herve Riel;
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