This is an analysis of the poem The Shantyman's Fate. that begins with:
He came out of the woods when the spring-time came,
And all of his pockets were filled with lucre ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xa bc aX a d ed ed XX X d fd fc dc d ed X eX dX dXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,2,1,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111001100111 1100100101 111011101 1010101010 11110110101 10101110110 01011110010 101001001110 0101100101 11101001010 1110100101 0101111110 110011001001 111010010010 11101101001 111010110100 0111010111 11111101111 0101101101 1011010101 01111011001 010101101 0101111101 10101011101 11111111001 011100101 101100 10101101101 11011011111 0110100111 010110111 11101100101 1100111110
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 68
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, he, as, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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