This is an analysis of the poem Christmas At Sea that begins with:
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;
The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddaa aabb eecc ffgg ffhh bbbb iiaa aaccXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101011110101 0101011010111 01101001010101 11110100010101 1101010010101 111000101111111 110100111100001 11100101110101 11111101011101 11110101111101 11111100010111 1101110110101 11010101110111 110011111011101 111011101010101 101000100010101 01110101111101 0011001010100111 01010110101001 111110101010101 0101010100101001 101111111011001 0101010011101 101010101011111 11110101010101 11010100110101 111101001010101 11010101110101 11110111011101 001110111011101 110101110100101 00111010111101 1101111010101 11011101110101 10111011111101 101110101010101 11000101010110 101110101111101 101011100010001 1101010110101 111010110011111 11101011010101 11111100010101 111111011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, all, head, tacked, day, his, as, of, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, all are 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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